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This blog will serve as a resource for Writing Centers that are devoted to antiracist activism. Tutors, directors and other writing center staff can discuss ways in which racism occurs in their writing centers/institutions, but more importantly, they will be able to discuss ways in which their writing center can combat such instances of racism. In other words, this is a blog that encourages the sharing of experiences, ideas, advice, and methods of dealing with racism and discrimination.
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I disagree.
While I could see the contemporary link between the chimp attack and the stimulus bill signing, the choice of any primate to represent President Obama was in poor taste. This was an oversight by the cartoonist. I don't see this as a deliberate attack on the Black Community, but I do see this as political ignorance.
Does this remind you of the Islam cartoons controversy?
To me, it's easier for the political majority to tell the political minority to get used to things/social practices because they are the ones in control. And of course, the political majority is--by its very nature--blind to experiences of the political minority.
It is easy for me as a white person to potentially say, "dang; why do people still get upset about racism" because as a member of a racial, political majority I don't experience this. However, please reconsider the view of the discriminated.
I'm not asking for political correctness or police conversation, I'm asking for increased rhetorical sensitivity.
Please consider this.
I haven't read through all of the blog post yet, but in mention of the continued "voluntary" segregation of much of U.S. life, I noticed there wasn't mention of schools, some of the most segregated - and unequal - places in our country. I wonder, what role do you think writing centers can play in re-desegregating schools?
~Moira from KU
Moira:
I think writing centers could play a supportive role in re-desegregating schools. However, I think the answer to that question starts with establishing the writing center's role in a larger institution.
I've worked at only two writing centers--a community college and an urban, state university--but it seems to me that where a writing center is placed spatially, and politically, will greatly affect writing center audiences.
I really like your question, because I have not read much writing center literature regarding the role of writing centers within larger institutions or surrounding communities.
In a general sense, when writing centers are committed to practices (like, say Antiracist Activism), individuals of politically marginalized may be reinvited/reintroduced into an educational community--through each given tutoring session.
Then say, imagine if those writers become tutors at a writing center. I imagine a social potential for this movement of inclusion, if practiced over time.
What sort of role do you think we, writing center folk, could play in re-desegregating schools?
-SVD
Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back immediately, then and there, where it happens...The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers
ща course you are, with no doubt. Americans never distinguished with bravery@@
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