Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!
Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?
A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!
Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?
A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.
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An uninformed LA Times Opinion writer was big mad that UCLA asks faculty applicants to document their contributions to “equity, diversity and inclusion."
She asks, "If Albert Einstein applied for a professorship at UCLA today, would he be hired? The answer is not clear." She asks if his work would "reflect his contributions to equity, diversity and inclusion? Unlikely." Or his “potential to understand the barriers facing women and racial/ethnic minorities? Also unlikely."
️Umm.. yes it would. -
An uninformed LA Times Opinion writer was big mad that UCLA asks faculty applicants to document their contributions to “equity, diversity and inclusion."
She asks, "If Albert Einstein applied for a professorship at UCLA today, would he be hired? The answer is not clear." She asks if his work would "reflect his contributions to equity, diversity and inclusion? Unlikely." Or his “potential to understand the barriers facing women and racial/ethnic minorities? Also unlikely."
️Umm.. yes it would.As previously mentioned, here's what Einstein had to say about segregation:
"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
For the last 20 years of his career, Einstein declined almost all public speaking engagements, except those at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
This photo was taken at Lincoln University, an HBCU.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!
Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?
A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.
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@mekkaokereke white folks have always been in my timelines questioning why I keep talking about white culture and bigotry and the answer is "without constantly talking about it, white people stop thinking about and factoring in how much racism constantly influences how they think and how they decide things".
I'm both glad you are willing to do it and sorry that you (we) have to. I'm mixed Chinese and grew up in STEM with a Chinese parent also in STEM and I still didn't know these things about Einstein and antiracism. Thank you.
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@mekkaokereke white folks have always been in my timelines questioning why I keep talking about white culture and bigotry and the answer is "without constantly talking about it, white people stop thinking about and factoring in how much racism constantly influences how they think and how they decide things".
I'm both glad you are willing to do it and sorry that you (we) have to. I'm mixed Chinese and grew up in STEM with a Chinese parent also in STEM and I still didn't know these things about Einstein and antiracism. Thank you.
In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” MLK described what moderates want as ‘negative peace:’ A condition where nobody hears people crying out for justice.
Whereas he demanded a positive peace: The condition where people have no need to cry out for justice.
Sounds like you have some moderates in your timeline.
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