A Letter to the Students at Evergreen College

Update: Here's a follow-up article posted June 1st.

I've taken a recently posted article from Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" and modified it a bit to fit my personal experience as a white person. Here it is:

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Dear Ones, 

Allow me to apologize if my white privilege offends you. The truth of the matter is, I don’t consider myself “white” privileged. 

I identify as “hard work” privileged. My family was so poor while I was going to high school that we had to live strictly off of zucchini in our garden for one summer. When I was a child, my father worked multiple jobs to feed, cloth and house his family WHILE earning his degree from UC Berkeley. (That was BEFORE it became a liberal bastion of socialism and fascism, mind you.

Let me put it in terms you’ll understand: he worked his white ass off. He worked as a teacher in southern California until his colleagues set him up to be "let go" by the principal because he refused to join their teacher's union. After that, he did the best he could to provide for his family by operating his own cleaning business and spent countless hours doing it in order to make ends meet when it came to the bills he owed. He WORKED, and he worked HARD, and didn't complain about it. 

My father worked a lot more than a whiny, self-indulgent, out-of-touch, unrealistic, privileged college "social justice warrior" like you could ever comprehend. And guess what? It paid off. In three generations, my family went from struggling on farms to living comfortable lives. His example inspired me to understand that if I didn't work hard at whatever I decided to do with my life, I would not get far at all.

I served my country for four years. (I would wager that there are very few, if any who've done the same that are students at Evergreen in Olympia.) I worked hard to going to college and getting my teaching degree as well. I worked hard within the public school system, like my father, only to be betrayed by that very system as political correctness and entitlement began to rear its fascist head only ten years ago. (I saw this very type of behavior happening in my middle-school classes as I was ending my career, and am not really surprised to learn this event has occurred at your college.)

I exceeded what my father accomplished in two ways that I know he'd be proud of; one, I pressed on and worked hard to get my masters in education, and two, I managed to work long enough to collect my pension for retirement. That doesn't make me privileged because I'm white, if it makes me anything, it's being able to reap the rewards of my efforts despite the crap I encountered along the way that tried to prevent me from succeeding. As far as I can tell in your case, you apparently "feel" that intimidation, demands laced with obscenities, and pushing a warped sense of entitlement will get you whatever you demand.

That is the promise of America: generational change through hard work. 

You want respect? Be respectful and show respect. 

You want acceptance? Be accepting and accept that others may have differing views. 

You want more out of life? Work harder and you too will reap the fruits of your labor; provided you don't attempt to take over your bosses workplace.

Since these are unlikely outcomes given your entitled worldview, I’ve created a list of demands on behalf of society to counter your own warped list: 

WE DEMAND that you conduct yourselves with dignity and refrain from irrational, emotional outbursts laced with profanity that demean and further marginalize you from society. 

WE DEMAND that you respect your fellow students regardless of race, creed or color. 

WE DEMAND that you treat persons of authority such as professors, administrators and safety personnel with the dignity and respect they deserve. Should you be unable to meet these basic standards of human decency, I’ve created an additional list of demands: 

WE DEMAND that you read and study the following (no doubt something you've never been exposed to in your public school experience), so that you'll understand better how out of touch you are with how much you take for granted: 

- The Declaration of Independence 

- The U.S. Constitution 

- The Bill of Rights 

- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 

-The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 

- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 

- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington 

- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 

- The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen 

- The Founders’ Almanac by Matthew Spaulding 

- Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence by Benson J. Lossing 

- Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior by Judith Martin 

WE DEMAND that you create a safe space utopia and never leave the campus of Evergreen State College. 

WE DEMAND that you not integrate with the rest of society until you study and understand what real oppression looks like (try Mao, Pol Pot and Stalin for starters). 

WE DEMAND that you immediately retake English 101 to coherently write your next list of demands so we can more fully understand what we’ll be throwing in the trash. 

WE DEMAND that you grow up (and while you’re at it, grow a pair and a spine). 

WE DEMAND that you no longer employ police or safety officers and subject them to your intolerant hatred. Please attend to your own protection and police yourselves on the grounds of your new utopia — the campus of Evergreen State College. 

WE DEMAND that you create and manage a self-sustaining eco farm to grow and harvest your own vegan-based food supply (again, so you will never have to leave the campus of Evergreen State College). 

WE DEMAND that you work and create your own monetary system to support and pay for the Day of Absence, Day of Presence, Equity Center, Vice President of Equity and Inclusion, Trans & Queer Center, Undocumented Student Center, Student Affairs and The Student Code of Conduct. 

WE DEMAND mandatory reality and societal competency training for anyone wishing to leave the newly-formed social utopia of Evergreen State College. 

If you don't make an effort to implement at least some of these demands, the legislators in Olympia - that's right, in your own backyard - then a new bill that one legislator is introducing will privatize your school and end your immature rant.

Yours truly, 

Pretty Much Everyone Living in the Real World