If I am denied something because of my ethnicity, then the heck with them. That's not a place I would want to work at to begin with because even if I was chosen, there is a built-in prejudice to which I want no association.
But again, what will not work is directly accepting someone just because of what they look like. That's dangerous territory. I'll take someone who is qualified regardless what he/she might look like. Just get the job done.
Diversity became the word of choice after the Supreme Court knocked down Texas med school quota model. So we no longer have quotas, we now have an asset called diversity that the Supreme Court approved.
I’m not a diversity guy, I’m a best person guy. Sometimes it’s even a white guy who’s under thirty.
There’s very little diversity in the NFL, NBA, NHL. I don’t know why African Americans are so good at basketball. Seems nobody else works as hard to master the game. Surely can’t have anything to do with genetics.
So it just gets wiped away? A history of racial oppression is just gone. The Civil War ended 150 years ago. Black people legally gained the right to vote with the 15th Amendment and still had/have major issues exercising that basic right. Schools/bathrooms/water fountains were still segregated into the late 60s and early 70s. The freaking 1970's!!
I think we should aspire to be better than Venezuela.
We live one of in the richest countries in the world but we lag far behind most other first world countries when it comes to things like poverty, inequality, healthcare, education, etc. When countries with less resources than we have are able to help their citizens flourish better than we can, it is a massive failure. There’s no other way to say it. We need to do better.
Your lackluster advancement probably has zero to do with the color of your skin.
But in 2020 the color of some people’s skin has costed them jobs regardless what the color is. I personally witnessed white men not getting hired until my company hired the right diversity. They were hired immediately after the diversity was met. I’m sure some great blacks were passed over because of the Jerry Baldwin stigma. The company had enough black people to meet the diversity goals, no need to take a Baldwin risk.
In this day and time, if someone is having a problem voting, it's more than likely because they are not doing what they need to do to vote legally or properly. Such as, obtaining a valid gov't issued I.D., actually going to the polls to pull the lever, having a criminal record that prevents them from legally voting, etc. As a matter of fact, what is more prevalent, is a certain group of people standing outside of polling places trying to influence voters or attempting to intimidate voters who may not see things the way they do (if you get my drift). As far as schools/bathrooms/water fountains go, when was the last time you have seen any kid (black/white/red/green) denied entry to schooling or the use of a bathroom or water fountain? If you have witnessed any such act, where was it and did you report it to the proper authorities?
So please tell me what is the meaning of "decolonizing our curriculum by requiring all English majors to take a course designated as Race & Ethnic Studies, by making introductory and advanced courses in Race & Ethnic Studies part of our core course offerings, and by continuing to expand these offerings as we move forward."
We've seen what these Race & Ethnic Studies have mean't under the so-called Diversity Doctrine on college campuses all across this country. This has nothing to to do with Diversity of thought, but indoctrination. Decolonizing? Removing "Meaning White Centric" History, or American History to express a historical view that is less insulting to their political views and goals. New Teaching Decolonization.
https://www.historians.org/publicati.rce-collection
"We will establish an anti-racist reading group for interested students, staff, and faculty; invite student participation on key departmental committees, including the Diversity committee and the English Majors committee; and create a mechanism through which students can safely and confidentially offer feedback about instances of racism and exclusion in the classroom and about our efforts to address inequities."
So under these types of initiatives we've already seen a number of literary works removed from campus libraries like "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Mark Twain's works such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Harper Lee's novel "To Kill A Mockingbird".
"Diversity Committee and the UL Office for Campus Diversity to educate ourselves on anti-racist and decolonizing pedagogies and practices, to better understand how our pedagogies relate to the goals of justice movements, and to institute faculty workshops that encourage the implementation of pedagogical theory as classroom practice."
Again this is part of re-educating and indoctrination in education. The term of "decolonizing has been used often to the Marxist Movement. I can go on, but if you have no studied the Marxist Movement and it's goals, or cared to keep yourself informed on current events you probably that understand these initiatives. I'm don't know what is more concerning, that fact that you do not know what these types initiatives are, or that you haven't a clue of what it means.
I doubt it, that would put him or her over 55 years of age. I'm 56 and was attending class in desegregated schools beginning in 1970 at JW Faulk. I've never attend a segregated school in my life, in fact living on the Northside of Lafayette I never attended a school that was less than 60-40 white to minority ratio. I doubt seriously if he or she has ever experienced that reality. So if there were schools still segregated in 1970, it wasn't in Lafayette.
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