“We were taught that race should be the dominant lens through which clients were to be understood and therapy conducted,” says Elliott, a mother of four who’d m

“We were taught that race should be the dominant lens through which clients were to be understood and therapy conducted,” says Elliott, a mother of four who’d majored in psychology. Elliott’s professors taught her, for example, that if clients were white, she was supposed to help them see how they unwittingly perpetuate white supremacy. “We were encouraged to regard white clients as ‘reservoirs of racism and oppression.’” White women, one professor told a class, were “basic bitches,” “Beckys” and “nothing special.” If the client were black, Elliott was told to ask how it felt to sit with her, a white counselor. If the client felt at ease, “my job — regardless of what brought him to therapy — was to make him more aware of how being black compounded, or perhaps caused, his problems.” ... I don't know in what world this is acceptable. Treating anyone this way is wrong. It's difficult to read articles like this without feeling revolted. This isn't even about race to me it's about common decency... Far from me to tell how americans should run their business but sure they do need to talk about their race relations; and in doing so make sure people don't become the monsters they're seeking out to destroy. Stop this madness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bndL7wwAj0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bndL7wwAj0U