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The lingering effects of racism and white supremacy have tainted American thinking, or so claims one university president in The Golden State.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Dr. Rick Addante, a neuroscientist and former tenured psychology professor with 25 years of experience in academia. In September 2025, the former professor was invited to an event hosted by the American Psychological Association (APA) Leadership Development Institute, featuring the president of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Dr. Addante said attendees were notified that the event was being recorded and that they were permitted to share its contents.
On October 1, the former professor posted video clips on X of CSUDH president Dr. Thomas Parham addressing the virtual crowd.
I have a University President operating while receiving federal funds from @usedgov and @DeptofWar funds for educating/indoctrinating an @army ROTC unit cadets says the same things on video. Wanna see, @CivilRights, @JMPhelpsLC ? pic.twitter.com/4WPbE611EF
— Rick Addante, PhD (@RickAddante) October 1, 2025
From the Trojan Horse’s Mouth
According to Dr. Addante, “it is important for this big lede not to be buried.” That is, he argued, “the president of CSU says he sees it as his role to disrupt and dislodge white people, their beliefs, and more. That’s a big deal, and it’s appalling.”
The full one-and-a-half-hour online symposium can be viewed in its entirety here:
At the 20:49-minute mark, Dr. Parham said, “…we need to be cognizant of how our minds and spirits—our minds and spirits—have been contaminated by the residuals of racism and white supremacy.” Shortly after, he asserted, “Everybody is carrying residuals, but knowing how we are conceptually incarcerated, I think, is important to remember about that.”
Apparently, he thinks that “opinions of self, opinions of others, [and] opinions about a situation and social context” lead to “assumptions,” which lead to being conceptually incarcerated.
Approximately 24 minutes later, a moderator asked: “How can people of color respond to white fragility?” By definition, the term describes the unease that “white” individuals might feel when engaging in conversations about racism. At the 48:17-minute mark, Dr. Parham referred to an early part of the presentation where he “argued that it’s not just the oppressed but the oppressor class that are impacted by, right, the craziness that goes on in the world.
[He continued, saying,] “… it’s a lot of our white counterparts have been victimized, I think, by the socialization that they have received and some of that comes out of their families, some of that comes out of their schools, some that comes out of their communities, some of that comes from lots of places.”
“I think it never hurts anybody to show compassion for that. But showing compassion and showing empathy and showing regard for someone’s humanity is different than allowing them to make an excuse about why they cannot receive the information.”
“If you can’t make people uncomfortable with where they are, there’s no motivation to change. So, I have never been apologetic about wanting to disrupt people. I want to dislodge them from that comfortable category of intellectual, emotional, and behavioral apathy that has been stuck in the way things are and then acting in the way that happens.”
“If I need to adjust or disrupt that fragility in order to do that, that is the only thing that is going to instigate change. If I make them too comfortable, then all they do is receive information and passively go about doing it as if everything they’re doing is okay. So, I have to be one that’s unapologetic about being able to confront the fragility.”
At the 1:09:24-minute mark, the moderator asks, “Could you provide some concrete examples of how therapists can help a client identify the impact of residual white supremacy?”
Dr. Parham said, “…the residuals of white supremacy has a particular ideology that people need to become familiar with as does racism.”
[As an example, he said,] “There are a lot of folk, particularly in the current political administration, who try to feel good about themselves, but their ability to feel good doesn’t come independently. It’s much like, you know traditional anthropology and psychology and social science. In order for them to feel good about themselves, they had to denigrate other people.”
Residual white supremacy could be defined as the lasting impact of white supremacist beliefs and behaviors that continue to exist in society, despite the decline of more explicit forms of racism. For Dr. Addante the purported discriminatory psychological construct is “a completely undefinable nebulous” and “pseudoscience garbage.”
The research psychologist and neuroscientist finds it equally disturbing that Dr. Parham, a clinical psychologist, also “thinks that white fragility is a psychological construct that even exists.” In Dr. Addante’s opinion, like the construct of residual white supremacy, it is also “pseudoscience garbage.” Apart from the racist implication, he’s curious how Dr. Parham would actually define fragility. “Aren’t we all fragile—and resilient—to one degree or another?”
Dr. Addante said, “The pseudoscience terms of ‘white fragility’ and ‘residual white supremacy’ are an even bigger problem because the APA program hosting the seminar bills itself as ‘rooted in rigorous psychological science.’” To that, he argued, “this is just simply not true here, [explaining] there is no rigorous science to support those constructs even existing, let alone objectively defining them in any scientifically meaningful way.”
Dr. Addante was particularly disturbed by the CSUDH president’s next statement. “Everybody knew this current federal administration was not liking black folk, was not liking Latino folk, and was not down with immigrants. Everybody knew that,” according to Dr. Parham.
The CSUDH president then went into a short diatribe about President Donald Trump’s terms in office.
“What does racism and white supremacy do and how does it respond?” [Dr. Parham asked.] “When you can brag about grabbing women by the privates, that is sexual assault that would wind everybody else up in jail. And 53 percent of the women still vote for you. Mostly white. You know this is something more than just a political issue.”
“The women came forward, [saying] we messed up last time we voted for him [and] you’re right…reproductive freedom is on the line. Whatever, whatever. 60 percent of women still voted for him this time. Mostly white. You know, it’s not about the issue. So, what is it about? So, they didn’t mind black, Latino, or immigrants being impacted by someone we already knew…had those tendency. What they didn’t figure out is he don’t care about me either.”
“So, now the seniors who voted for them thought their Social Security was not going to be impacted. They thought that their Medicare and Medicaid wasn’t going to be impacted. The veterans who voted for him thought, what do you mean he is going to (sic) dismantle our stuff?”
[A few minutes later, he admitted,] “… we’re hoping that these next years, at least until the midterm election, provides a teachable moment for folks to say you cannot put people like that in power who really don’t have any self-interest … other than the narcissistic ways in which they go about trying to validate themself by denigrating other people in vain.”
For Dr. Addante, “These are all nonsensical things that are being used as a cudgel to weaponize racism in this country, and it’s an abomination.” The president of a university and a clinical psychologist is “advocating for this kind of nonsense, and you simply cannot write this off as an isolated incident, [as] it is happening everywhere.”
The ‘Pseudoscience Nonsense’ Also Impacts the Military
In an example of federal funding from the Office of the Secretary of War, CSUDH received $798,680 for the period of June 2023 thru June 2027.
Image: Screenshot of DoD Grant Award (Defense Technical Information Center)
The university also continues to maintain a DEI office amid disputes of whether millions of dollars should be awarded to schools promoting such initiatives.
As Dr. Addante previously told The Gateway Pundit, these kinds of incidents are Trojan horses. To that end, he said, “Cal State Dominguez Hills has an Army and Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) program and this is the ideological framework the president of the university is sharing with others to teach students that might include future leaders of our nation’s military?”
In the former Air Force Auxiliary captain’s opinion, “Department of War should not be sending one nickel of American money to an institution that teaches students they have ‘residual white supremacy’ and is training some of these very students to become officers to lead other young men and women into battle and at home.”
“Is teaching them to hate the administration they may have to go work for not indoctrination?” Dr. Addante asked. “Some of them are being told—without reliable evidence, and contrary to the widely-available evidence—their boss, the commander in chief, is a white supremacist that hates them.”
“Universities need to be kept in check,” or this type of Marxist/Leftist ideology will keep infiltrating the U.S. Armed Forces to its detriment, he cautioned.
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