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'Green Lives Matter' College Course Title Has Some Critics Seeing Red

posted by n1 on Wednesday August 03 2016, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the burning-bridges dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Black Lives Matter has taken offense at police saying “Blue Lives Matter” and others who say “All Lives Matter,” but now a Wisconsin school is risking ire by branding a class on environmentalism “Green Lives Matter.”

The course at University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will encourage students to support the “environmental justice movement” by “the merging of civil rights and environmental concerns.” But even Scott Furlong, the dean of social sciences at the school, acknowledged that the class name plays on what has become a loaded term.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/01/green-lives-matter-college-course-title-has-some-critics-seeing-red.html

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:30AM (#384017)

    even decades after the end of segregation and Jim Crow laws, white supremacy is still policy and law in so many places

    Examples?

  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:01PM

    by t-3 (4907) on Thursday August 04 2016, @11:01PM (#384297)

    I think a better way of making that point would be to say: The (white) power structure that was in place during Jim Crow/segregation era is still largely intact, still largely/disproportionately filled with white people, and that there has been no attempt to rectify the mistakes of the past or to address the situation as it currently stands because the people who happen to be in power like the situation as it is.