Yale offers class to analyze whether White and Black women can be friends

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Leave it to the Ivy League to create an entire class studying racial dynamics in friendships.

Seemingly determined to continue dividing Americans based on immutable characteristics like race, Yale University is offering a course titled “No Time for Tears: Friendships between Black Women and White Women” that will reportedly examine whether “relationships between Black women and White women can develop an equal footing.”

The course description reads like a DEI worksheet, asking “Can those relationships be unfettered by the trappings of quid pro quo transactions? Can they be built upon hard emotional labor, trust, and–risky and rare as it may seem–love? Are these relationships even possible?”

“Might we explore the deficits that make these relationships difficult? We seek to interrogate with brutal honesty the stakes that underwrite Black women’s relationships with White women,” it adds.

The course is reportedly scheduled to be taught by Professor Tasha Hawthorne, Dean of Yale’s Pierson College. Her area of study focuses on “the intersection of gender, sexuality, genre, race, and politics in Black fiction” and she has previously taught classes such as “Race, Power, and Privilege” and “The Sociology of the African American Experience.”

Perhaps enticing students who simply need a passing grade, all who take the class are guaranteed to receive a B+ for meeting the minimum requirements, without regard for how they score on their assignments. This type of grading is known as “contract grading” and has been determined to be an “actively anti-racist approach to assessment” by “participating in educational justice and equity,” according to College Fix who reviewed the syllabus. It goes on to disparage traditional grading methods as effectively being too White, saying it promotes “bias related to being White Anglo Saxon Protestant, speaking and writing standard English, growing up in a first language English-speaking community, having parents with collegiate education, attending high schools with AP or IB classes, etc.,”

As a reminder this is coming from Yale University, a historically prestigious and difficult-to-enter facility of higher education catering to the leaders of the future.