Comments on: Living Together http://blog.elizabethkateswitaj.net/2009/07/1261/ Elizabeth Kate Switaj Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: EKSwitaj http://blog.elizabethkateswitaj.net/2009/07/1261/comment-page-1/#comment-16751 EKSwitaj Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:13:24 +0000 http://blog.elizabethkateswitaj.net/?p=1261#comment-16751 Thank for commenting. You're absolutely right that the primary reason for diversity is so that people of color (and, in other contexts, other groups that have been excluded) can have a place in the system, and if I had been as aware of these issues as I want to be, I would have included that before discussing diversity-as-education. Thank for commenting. You’re absolutely right that the primary reason for diversity is so that people of color (and, in other contexts, other groups that have been excluded) can have a place in the system, and if I had been as aware of these issues as I want to be, I would have included that before discussing diversity-as-education.

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]]> By: Nora http://blog.elizabethkateswitaj.net/2009/07/1261/comment-page-1/#comment-16750 Nora Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:33:54 +0000 http://blog.elizabethkateswitaj.net/?p=1261#comment-16750 I stumbled onto your blog through feministing. I, too, lived with someone of a different race and found it profoundly changed the way I looked at the world (even though I'm a WOC myself). I also love that you acknowledge it's not a POC's responsibility to educate a white person, nor is it their reason for going to a school. It seems that a lot of white people think diversity is for whites, which to some extent it is (just as it's for any race, in the sense that diversity should benefit all groups coming together). But I think the primary reason diversity is so important is so that people of color have a part in the system, and that there are people of color in higher jobs and that they have helpful connections and so on and so forth. I think that affirmative action kind of got spun so that whites would think it was for them...maybe I've made this all up in my head, though ;) I stumbled onto your blog through feministing. I, too, lived with someone of a different race and found it profoundly changed the way I looked at the world (even though I’m a WOC myself). I also love that you acknowledge it’s not a POC’s responsibility to educate a white person, nor is it their reason for going to a school. It seems that a lot of white people think diversity is for whites, which to some extent it is (just as it’s for any race, in the sense that diversity should benefit all groups coming together). But I think the primary reason diversity is so important is so that people of color have a part in the system, and that there are people of color in higher jobs and that they have helpful connections and so on and so forth. I think that affirmative action kind of got spun so that whites would think it was for them…maybe I’ve made this all up in my head, though ;)

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