Please define "color" and "race" as used in your post. Please also tell us what subject you teach.
“Please define “color” and “race” as used in your post. Please also tell us what subject you teach.”
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I teach a semester-long survey class on the business of health care. 90% United States. No policy. No politics. Just how to run the business better. Operations. Finance. Cost accounting. Budgeting. Governance. Etc.
Color: I have > 30% international students coming from all over the globe and nearly ever professional school — engineering, law, business, informatics, medical/pharmacy/nursing/public health schools, ... Many have never heard of Medicare. Many have English as a second language and enroll knowing that their work is evaluated entirely based on six written essays and a class presentation. But they enroll anyway, knowing how disadvantaged they are in terms of grading relative to their white, all-US counterparts. In two decades of teaching this class, I do not recall even one student asking for me to put a thumb on the scale to compensate.
The anger on this thread toward black students in particular is orthogonal to the truth in my 30+ years of experience. You are blaming the victims. These students are poorly served by all aspects of the higher education status quo and are heroic in their hard work to navigate a system that is totally FUBAR and aligned AGAINST them even as it poses to be in favor. Their patience is to be respected and whatever anger they have is warranted and righteous.
I am an old white male by the way. I am in the middle of a system that you are all treating very speculatively.