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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wasn’t a PAPER people! It was a live zoom presentation at the end of a tiring intense semester at a very multicultural graduate program abroad where many are there for the explicit reason of wanting to take their lifetime of awareness like nonother generation of rising white nationalism globally, diminishing resources regionally including 3rd world countries where plug-in stations are not high on their list- the whole pint of me the old white broad wondering about how woke people are being misinterpreted for being superior saviors because they, too, like their international peers, may want to affect change from the roots of the problem up.

It is getting pretty damn tiring to hear there are so many buzz words that must trickle down to the students who are in positions at selective grad programs from maybe their own parents to be suspicious of white kids also studying your cause. It is boring at a certain point, we all need each other and have to stol the labeling.

Finally, as I began this post- I’m a parent who always felt in DC we made conscious choices about weaving in our entire fabric of DC culture as important since our kids were born- I was raised Catholic which used to mean what Jesus taught/ help the poor, do unto others, give etc- and recognize we are all equal in the eus of God. I mentioned this discourse to my 90 ur old mother yesterday, who took in foster babies in the 60/ until they were adopted; who made a lint to invite the first black family on the block to a dinner party in 1970, who raised her children visiting all parts of DC and eating in restaurant Gs run by people of color (is that term still ok?). Her response? Through her hearing aide on the exam table where we hope it isn’t Lou Gehrig’s, while holding g her rosary, ‘what’s so bad about being a white savior? We were entitled and that’s what we should do’.

I mean people - we all want to get there. If there is a new code of ‘nuance’, one can’t extrapolate that a fellow grad student decided another student- based on his white skin even though his partner female presenter was Pakistani and in tandem with him- if we can’t see that perhaps the white savior label is an unconscious bias in itself that is part of the problem. 
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Oh, man. You need to disengage from this. You are telling the grandparents, angrily posting on DCUM, and I'm sure your son was over it days ago.

I'd also note this, though. You have a long list above of all the things your family has done FOR people of color. You took in their babies, you visited them in the neighborhood, you ate at their restaurants. But I don't see anything about about what you did WITH people of color, nor what you did under their leadership.

If your son took any of those attitudes with him to grad school, particularly as it appears he is K-MA without any fieldwork in between, then I can see why he's having his eyes opened by his peers now. [/quote]

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