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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't think you should look at the group of white kids as only discussing the experiences of other races.
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God no. I think most of the discussion would be to minimize the experiences of other races. "Can you believe X got into Y instead of Z? It was just because X was black."
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Their experiences and feelings need attention as well.
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Sure. But my experience dealing with their experience is that there is an extraordinary amount of really annoying whining that goes on. White people talking among themselves about race can be really uncomfortable and disturbing.
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Hell, if you can figure out how to remove the anger and fear white people generate about other races before it starts, that would be great.
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OK, I won't be snide here. This is really the key, and the reason to pay attention to the process described in the article. If these single-race discussions do anything to remove this anger and fear, sign me up, skeptical as I am. My real fear is, though, that racial biases ooze into kids at a very young age, and that when you put whites in a room together talking about race they'll more often than not reinforce the biases than work toward removing them. Will putting them in a room together afterwards with kids with different racial experiences fix some of the issue? Give them more self-awareness? I don't know. My temptation is to put them in a room together from the beginning.
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And it seems to me people are typically more honest about discussing this stuff when they can be open without the fear of offending or being judged.
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Maybe, but if those honest feelings are a bunch of entitled whining, somebody, even a white somebody, should call them out on it.
