Showing Up for Conversations About Social Justice

It takes courage to reflect on your own privilege, but when teachers commit to vulnerability during class discussions, it builds respect and trust.

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[MapleFan]

This is excellent. As a teacher I really appreciate the class moments when students share their honest thoughts and feel how much others value them.

[khwahishsharada]

Teachers need to create comfort zone for children or students so that they can communicate in a natural & calm way.

[Nalojuntu]

If you don't make the link between racism and capitalism, you won't get further than a moral approach of it.

Yes it can/could help reducing the number of working class people who would have got tricked into it by the capitalists.

But even if that's kinda better than nothing, it won't change the big picture if you don't analyse how racism benefits the upper capitalist class, the bourgeoisie.

And how these capitalists, with their medias are watching over the fire of divisions, to serve electoral agendas.

This teacher's point, try to take the "blame and shame" of "maybe being racist while not even noticing it" gets almost nowhere.

If you want to talk about racism without going into politics and the class war at stake, at least go for a philosophical debate.

And at least refer to anthropology and cognitive science about the fear of difference, about mental constructions and the usefulness of building reference experiences.

Maybe I'm over-speculating on what the presentation seems to miss out, but that's important.

And finally, please do get at it politically of you're serious : 'cause yeah, you can do these class work in this school with the sufficient time and funds to do so. But capitalists and their system aren't gonna put on the table the money to generalise this to every school in the USA.

If you want these classwork all over USA, you'll have to fight capitalism.