As we see the intersection of race and academics, we're often told what we should see and believe. As opposed to our own views. So when the student body president at Kansas tweets “happy friday everybody. Death to america”, then complains about people criticizing her, we should ... what??
From the article: She said among the reasons she …
As we see the intersection of race and academics, we're often told what we should see and believe. As opposed to our own views. So when the student body president at Kansas tweets “happy friday everybody. Death to america”, then complains about people criticizing her, we should ... what??
From the article: She said among the reasons she wasn’t surprised by the backlash was because of this country’s history of condemning Black people and other people of color for speaking out.
Seriously, this is what it has come to. A black woman can retweet "Death to america" and then condemn people who objected to this by implying their criticism is motivated by skin color.
We've clearly f-ed up when people think they are immune to criticism because of their skin color.
As we see the intersection of race and academics, we're often told what we should see and believe. As opposed to our own views. So when the student body president at Kansas tweets “happy friday everybody. Death to america”, then complains about people criticizing her, we should ... what??
From the article: She said among the reasons she wasn’t surprised by the backlash was because of this country’s history of condemning Black people and other people of color for speaking out.
Seriously, this is what it has come to. A black woman can retweet "Death to america" and then condemn people who objected to this by implying their criticism is motivated by skin color.
We've clearly f-ed up when people think they are immune to criticism because of their skin color.