How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by BEEdwards on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:14AM (#28415825)

I say it from my own personal experience as a light skinned black person, I've seen how the police laser focus on my dark skinned friends and, I've seen the subtle differences in behavior displayed by white people in their presents.

So yes they are lucky to have not experienced it.

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by rayiner on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:38AM (#28416010)

I suspect that it’s not luck, but rather than the racism that exists in America isn’t directed at brown people generally, but Black people specifically. And while I’m fully supportive of combatting that, I’m not okay with schools telling my brown daughter that she faces systemic racism that she doesn’t. We shouldn’t project the Black American experience and pedagogy designed around that onto all brown people, which is what we’re on the path to doing. It’s not actually true and we should be truthful with our kids. By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well.

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by kongin on Sunday September 05, 2021 @03:52AM (#28422353)

>By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well.

That's ok, by then they will be white.

Just like how the grand children of the victims of the holocaust are both white and Nazis at the same time.

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