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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
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."
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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I wasn't really thinking of it as just an outlet for the kids to bitch and moan. I thought the idea was to guide people through their feelings after listening to what they had to say. If the goal is growth, I would hope that the teachers were in a position to achieve it. If the program was just to separate the kids so that they learned to identify with each other based on their race's shared experience, I would absolutely disagree with instituting it.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
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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I suppose we need to know more about the approach, but you seem to be removing the teaching aspect from it entirely. I picture an adult sitting with the kids and talking to them about this stuff when they're broken into groups and when they're all together.
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