Do you think cotillion is racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes or no? Do you think people who send their kids are racist?

I know African American women who have cotillion for their teens so I don't see how it can be racist. These are AFrican American cotillions and are very big in some areas.

[Anonymous]

My kids do cotillion. I did it growing up in the Philly suburbs. My DH did it growing up in the NY suburbs and he is Jewish. All the kids in our towns did it. It’s just a thing UMC white people do.

I don’t understand why just because it’s a tradition for UMC or UC white people, it’s considered inherently bad by some. Aren’t white people allowed to have cultural traditions? Is it really that different from a quinceanera or a cultural tradition within any number of other groups? White people are not devoid of their own cultural traditions and, while they should not considered any better than traditions in other cultures, they should also not be considered somehow necessarily worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classist, misogynist, and not inclusive of anyone in the LGBTQ community. Parents should be ashamed for sending their kids.

Actually quite a few gay people were there. They don't dance with girl girl guy guy but dancing is only part of it.

[Anonymous]

I find it creepy but I also think it’s weird when people talk about “the club” and also think it’s weird when school names start with The.

I’m white but not from a rich eastern town. I find all of these things that are sort of insider baseball for rich people just a little creepy.

But my husband says I’m a huge richist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes or no? Do you think people who send their kids are racist?

Of course not. What’s wrong with you. Get a life.

[Anonymous]

COTILLION?!

It’s the postwar era here, folks. Post CIVIL WAR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes or no? Do you think people who send their kids are racist?

I know African American women who have cotillion for their teens so I don't see how it can be racist. These are AFrican American cotillions and are very big in some areas.

It is, in general racist. A few token POCs does not change that fact.