A chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine sent a “monthly diversity roundup” email to staff with a letter declaring that all whites, Christians and men are “privileged.”
Dr. Sherita Hill Golden, the hospital system’s chief diversity officer, also included “straights” and English speakers in the “privileged” category in her letter to all staff.
In a section titled “Diversity is the word of the month,” Golden defined privilege as “a set of unearned benefits granted to people who belong to a specific social group” that operates at “personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional levels.” .
It provided a list of privileged social groups, including white people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, cisgender people, men, Christians, middle-class or property-owning people, middle-aged people, and English-speaking people.
Dr. Sherita Hill Golden is facing backlash for her definition of “privilege.” X/@EndWokeness Dr. Sherita Hill Golden’s list of privileged groups, according to a staff email. X/@EndWokeness
“Privilege is characteristically invisible to the people who have it. “People from dominant groups often believe that they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to those privileges if they worked to earn them,” he added in the letter.
The “monthly diversity summary” letter was delivered to and posted on account “End of awakening.”
The diversity statement was criticized on social media by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who tweeted: “This must stop!”
Musk, the richest man on the planet, is also white, cisgender, and speaks English.
Former President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., also condemned the decision, posting: “The rot and racism in higher education goes far beyond Harvard, MIT and Penn (my alma mater), it has taken hold. practically all institutions and needs to put an end to them.” now.”
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. TNS
Golden walked back his definition of privilege and apologized to staff Thursday morning after the backlash.
“The newsletter included a definition of the word privilege that, upon reflection, I deeply regret,” he wrote in a memo obtained by the Daily Mail. “The intent of the newsletter is to inform and support an inclusive community at Hopkins, but the language of this definition It clearly did not meet that objective.
“In fact, because it was overly simplistic and poorly worded, it had the opposite effect,” he continued. “I retract and repudiate the definition I shared and I am sorry.”
The Post has contacted Johns Hopkins Medicine for comment.
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