Florida Gulf Coast University professor Dr. Ted Thornhill (pictured) is leading the class
A new class being offered at a Florida university is premised on the notion that ‘the U.S. has been and remains a white supremacist society.’
Florida Gulf Coast University sociology professor Dr. Ted Thornhill is leading the class this spring and says the curriculum is ‘about the search for truth.’
‘Too many Americans, especially whites, are cocooned in a ‘bubble of unreality’ as it concerns racial matters,’ Thornhill wrote in a statement to Fox News on Tuesday.
‘I’m not teaching this course because white people get upset at me teaching this course, and I’m not teaching it because it makes them comfortable. I’m teaching it because it’s an important topic that needs to be addressed,’ said Thornhill.
Thornhill says that his class shouldn’t be misconstrued as ‘anti-white’ but ‘anti-white racism’
The class will also challenge ‘widely and adamantly held but empirically unsubstantiated myths about racial matters in the U.S,’ Thornhill said
The class aims to explore a range of social injustices that have spanned across American history
Students are expected to be well versed on the subject’s most ‘important scholarship’ in order to attain a ‘deeper and more sophisticated understanding of race, white racism, racial inequality, and white supremacy’ in America, Thornhill said.
‘I thought the name was a little dramatic,’ said FGCU student Jamar Arrindell. ‘It’s been a growing topic of conversation.’
The class, called ‘White Racism,’ will also challenge the most ‘widely and adamantly held but empirically unsubstantiated myths about racial matters in the U.S.,’ Thornhill said.
‘Many whites have subscribed to and promoted racist ideologies, championed and/or enacted scores of racist laws, policies, practices, and traditions, and made incalculable decisions in their daily lives that have operated to maintain white racial domination over blacks and other people of color for hundreds of years,’ he said.
Thornhill says that the subject matter of his class shouldn’t be misconstrued as ‘anti-white’ but rather is ‘anti-white racism.’
The class aims to explore a range of social injustices that have transpired throughout American history, including slavery, internment, segregation, discrimination and violence among others.
The course has already generated broad interest over the FGCU campus, with the class expanding from 35 to 50 students and has already reached maximum capacity.
‘I’m not teaching this course because white people get upset at me teaching this course, and I’m not teaching it because it makes them comfortable,’ Thornhill told Hello SWFL.
I’m teaching it because it’s an important topic that needs to be addressed.’