Update (2/8): This morning I contacted columnist Vincent Carroll to find out if Cherry Creek intended the statements in the training material to be examples of what not to think about white people. His reply: “No, the district definitely was NOT suggesting that those were things we should not believe about white people. ”
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…in Greenwood Village, Colorado. According to Rocky Mountain News columnist Vincent Carroll, the following was found among skin color deep-only diversity seminar material:
‘Most white people most of the time” share the belief that “bland is best” when it comes to aesthetics.
They believe that “wealth equals worth” and that a wife is “subordinate to (her) husband.”
In communicating, white people “don’t show emotion” and “avoid conflict, intimacy.”
They share an ethic of “win at all costs” and possess a “master and control nature.”
Cherry Creek School District apparently cirulated this drivel to area schools as part of “diversity” training. The school district is using stereotypes to teach teachers about diversity. Hmm…I don’t think I’m intelligent enough to grasp that. Am I allowed to question the intelligence of these bureaucrats? Or would that be too judgmental?
It reminds me of that far-out stuff Leonard Jeffries used to talk about. Quoting Wikipedia: “[Jeffries] also stirred controversy with his analysis of whites as ‘ice people’ who are violent and cruel, while blacks are ‘sun people’ who are compassionate and peaceful. He further claims that blacks are superior to whites because of their higher melanin levels, and his lectures often turn to racist and antisemitic tirades.”
OK. 
What Cherry Creek is doing reminds me of something Seattle Public Schools did. On its public web site, the school district contended, among other things, that only whites could be racists and that “having a future time orientation” (long-term planning; goal-setting) was a white trait and therefore, racist. After much ridicule from bloggers and Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute, the school district removed the embarrassing text. For more info, read my post on the mess.
Also see Andrew’s op-ed here and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer‘s follow-up story, which mentions Andrew and the fall-out.
I’m so glad I’m not a liberal anymore. Good night! 
Addendum: I must have “internalized” Carroll’s title. I didn’t realize until a second reading that it contained the word drivel. I usually try to be original, but there you go…
