Jodi Shaw used to be a student support adviser at the Massachusetts college without recently addressed a resignation letter to its leadership insisting that the environment left her “physically and mentally debilitated.”
“I can no longer work in this environment, nor can I remain silent about a matter so central to basic human dignity and freedom,” stated the letter, published by columnist Bari Weiss.
Smith College didn’t respond to a request for comment.
An alumna of the private liberal arts institution, Shaw announced the culture had changed strenuously after a 2018 incident when a black student blamed a white staffer of racism for calling campus security on her. An investigation revealed no evidence of racial prejudice, though the college established a list of initiatives aimed at fighting “systemic racism” on campus.
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Yet the ideology driving the applications seemed more concerned with inflaming anti-white attitudes rather than mitigating any form of racism, based on Shaw’s account.
“I endured racially hostile comments, and was expected to participate in racially prejudicial behavior as a continued condition of my employment. I endured meetings in which another staff member violently banged his fist on the table, chanting ‘Rich, white women! Rich, white women!’ in reference to Smith alumnae. I listened to my supervisor openly name preferred racial quotas for job openings in our department. I was given supplemental literature in which the world’s population was reduced to two categories—’dominant group members’ and ‘subordinated group members’—based solely on characteristics like race,” Shaw’s letter states.
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“Every day, I watch my colleagues manage student conflict through the lens of race, projecting rigid assumptions and stereotypes on students, thereby reducing them to the color of their skin. I am asked to do the same, as well as to support a curriculum for students that teaches them to project those same stereotypes and assumptions onto themselves and others. I believe such a curriculum is dehumanizing, prevents authentic connection, and undermines the moral agency of young people who are just beginning to find their way in the world.”
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She explained that other employees she spoke to were “deeply troubled” by the developments though were “too terrified to speak out about it.”
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In January 2020, Shaw said, she attended a mandatory staff retreat “focused on racial issues.”
She explained she wasn’t comfortable answering personal questions from the hired facilitator regarding race and “racial identity.”
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“Later, the facilitators told everyone present that a white person’s discomfort at discussing their race is a symptom of ‘white fragility.’ They said that the white person may seem like they are in distress but that it is actually a ‘power play,’” she wrote.
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