Got a question for youse guys! Are any of y'all uncomfortable with your "whiteness"? 'Cuz if you are, you can go to Ann Arbor, Michigan and they will "teach" you to "unpack" it ... whatever that means.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40145/
A two-day professional development conference held recently at the University of Michigan included a training session that aimed to help white employees deal with their "whiteness" so they could become better equipped to fight for social justice causes, according to organizers.
Participants who took part in the "Conversations on Whiteness" session, held December 5 during the university's Student Life Professional Development Conference, were taught to "recognize the difficulties they face when talking about social justice issues related to their White identity, explore this discomfort, and devise ways to work through it," the university's website states.
The goal was to help participants in "unpacking Whiteness" to support students and staff with issues and efforts "related to identity and social justice," the website added. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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