VDH: California University’s New President Vows to ‘Eliminate Whiteness’

“Eliminate whiteness,” says Sacramento State’s new president, Dr. Luke Wood. But press him on what that means? He has no answer.

Victor Davis Hanson explains what this rhetoric really means, and why this racialized framing is not only intellectually hollow, but deeply dangerous for a pluralistic and Western democratic society on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“He believed that black students on test scores or GPA or by traditional criteria were not competitive with other groups … and therefore, you had to have a different type of vocabulary, a different type of approach for black students, in a way you wouldn’t for other students. This is not gonna work. We have tried that for 50 or 60 years. And we’ve seen that the Great Society specialization and fixation on race did not work.

“This is in the age of post-DEI, in a very reactionary, retrograde approach, that you’re going to single out particular groups and you’re going to emphasize particular plans, programs based on the color of their skin at a time when we’re all trying to transcend it because when we have done that, it didn’t work. It created tensions rather than alleviated them. It created suspicion and distrust rather than ending such things. It’s a retrograde tribal thought that goes back to pre-civilizational ideas.

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(0:00) Introduction
(0:18) Meet Dr. Luke Wood
(0:30) Wood’s Controversial Interview
(4:00) Historical Context
(6:41) Critique of Wood's Views
(8:29) Conclusion