Allyship through Education discussion

Hi everyone -

Looking forward to the discussion tomorrow evening. Please post any questions or prompts you would like to discuss with the group here. Feel free to respond to others' questions as well with your answers.

You may choose questions from the author's reading guide as well if you need a starting point: https://www.beacon.org/assets/pdfs/wh...

One to get us started from her guide is: what is the earliest racial message you can recall receiving?

Something that got me thinking was when DiAngelo brought up the predominantly white teaching force. I just finished my third university degree, and it was my latest degree in which I finally started having teachers that looked more like me. I would like to talk about the opportunity to make the teaching force in America more diverse.

I love that topic, Neil. Let’s definitely discuss further. I would love to discuss education as a whole - I remember learning about Malcolm X and the Black Panthers in a negative light in school and not only this book but a number of things this past year have shown me that I was taught at such a white angle, it’s disappointing. Thank you for your thoughts here, Neil

Katie wrote: "I love that topic, Neil. Let’s definitely discuss further. I would love to discuss education as a whole - I remember learning about Malcolm X and the Black Panthers in a negative light in school an..."

And I think we can daisy-chain off this into media representation as well (see DiAngelo's discussion of the movie The Blind Side) and how that informs our views on white = good and black = bad.