Portlandia Community College

April will be Whiteness History Month at Portland Community College, during which time white students will learn all the things they have to be ashamed of as a race.

The WHM site makes clear that the project is not a "celebratory endeavor" like heritage months, but is rather "an effort to change our campus climate" by "[challenging] the master narrative of race and racism through an exploration of the social construction of whiteness." ("Challenging the master narrative," PCC explains, "is a strategy within higher education that promotes multicultural education and equity.")

Sounds more like a skit on Portlandia. But as we all know many ideas oozing out of "higher education" these days are beyond satire.

But not quite: Whiteness? We can pickle that!