U. Oklahoma race workshop led by consultant who claims being on time is ‘white supremacy’

Coming this May to New York City: The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, or NCORE, will feature a “pre-conference” session led by an educational consultant who believes being on time is a form of “white supremacy.”

Started in 1988, NCORE is a function of the University of Oklahoma’s Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies. This year, Heather Hackman of the Hackman Consulting Group will speak — all day on May 26 — about “The Body Already Knows: A Framework for Dismantling Race, Racism and Whiteness and Achieving Racial Justice.”

Hackman is a former professor of multicultural education at St. Cloud University who, at 2016’s “White Privilege Conference,” informed attendees that “the racial narrative of White” includes “making sure you’re not tardy.”

Individualism, honesty, discipline, and rigor were other factors.

Hackman also alleged the US education system is “literally killing off non-white Americans,” and once told prospective educators that if they don’t plan on promoting social justice in the classroom, don’t go into teaching.

According to the NCORE conference page,

[Hackman’s] workshop addresses the impacts of Race, Racism and Whiteness (RRW) by first grounding into the body and helping participants explore some basic tools of “embodied racial justice”. We then briefly explore Race, Racism and Whiteness content (racial narratives, systemic racism and systemic whiteness) and how their impacts land on our bodies. In particular, we will conceptually and somatically focus on the centrality of whiteness (white privilege and white supremacy) and how it sits at the center of the overall system of racial oppression. …