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> Can you provide some examples? Google Dr. Robin Diangelo? She puts it best. You'll likely disagree with everything she has to say because you want to. Howeve

> Can you provide some examples? Google Dr. Robin Diangelo? She puts it best. You'll likely disagree with everything she has to say because you want to. However, I challenge you to at least listen to her. After that look for some more research into implicit bias. You'll find everything from Xbox Kinect experiments that show how the body language of White teachers can change (for the worse) when talking to minority students and more things that will change your perspective. That is if you want your perspective to align with the truth. I am guessing that you are most comfortable with your existing point-of-view. > You are of course wrong. And I must suspect the reason you are wrong is that you are trying to mine the situation for a racial angle. In the USA you don't have to mine. Race plays into many (if not all) situations in the country whether you want to believe it or not. This one most definitely does. The article explicitly uses certain words. Race is right there in the article my friend. > That's exactly the problem I describe above... I would have to agree with that statement. But I don't see this teacher as one who has the proper education and empathy to help. If she really, truly, wants to help she can first further educate herself in race relations and the mentality of the disenfranchised.

smsm42 8y ago
> In the USA you don't have to mine. In this case, you had to. The situation is "poor people (yes, mostly African American) against the system that is built to keep them down". You make it to be "white people against black people". This proposes all the wrong solutions - instead changing the corrupt system that hinders students' advancement and keeps them from getting out of the cycle of poverty, you would promote "racial sensitivity" and "listening to the students" and "white people shouldn't try to do anything before they read all my favorite books" - with the focus, as it turns out, on enabling and protecting disruptive and non-learning students and supporting their negative attitude towards learning and advancement. not only for themselves but spilling out to their peers. Instead of working against the corrupt system that makes it impossible for a bright student to achieve success, you are working against the white people that try to help this student, because they are white, so they must be the problem. This makes - already made - the situation worse. Yes, USA has a long history of racial issues. But the way it is approached now - especially in the education system - does not work to heal this history and make things better. It works to keep people that were left behind for historical reasons - still left behind, now for reasons of broken policy and misguided "sensitivity".
- externalreality 8y ago
  I'm going to put this to bed by just calling you a (non-racist) bigot who wants to see things your non-racist but bigoted way. On the one hand you admit there is a huge problem but on the other hand call "sensitivity" to this "life-changing" sometimes "life-ending" problem "misguided". So my friend it seems you are a bigot.

smsm42 8y ago

> In the USA you don't have to mine. In this case, you had to. The situation is "poor people (yes, mostly African American) against the system that is built to keep them down". You make it to be "white people against black people". This proposes all the wrong solutions - instead changing the corrupt system that hinders students' advancement and keeps them from getting out of the cycle of poverty, you would promote "racial sensitivity" and "listening to the students" and "white people shouldn't try to do anything before they read all my favorite books" - with the focus, as it turns out, on enabling and protecting disruptive and non-learning students and supporting their negative attitude towards learning and advancement. not only for themselves but spilling out to their peers. Instead of working against the corrupt system that makes it impossible for a bright student to achieve success, you are working against the white people that try to help this student, because they are white, so they must be the problem. This makes - already made - the situation worse. Yes, USA has a long history of racial issues. But the way it is approached now - especially in the education system - does not work to heal this history and make things better. It works to keep people that were left behind for historical reasons - still left behind, now for reasons of broken policy and misguided "sensitivity".

externalreality 8y ago
I'm going to put this to bed by just calling you a (non-racist) bigot who wants to see things your non-racist but bigoted way. On the one hand you admit there is a huge problem but on the other hand call "sensitivity" to this "life-changing" sometimes "life-ending" problem "misguided". So my friend it seems you are a bigot.