Article about Race

I appreciate your opinion, but I have to disagree. These workshops are more sophisticated than anti bullying or finger pointing. They are meant to give young adults the opportunity to recognize what most adults are way too uncomfortable to address. I strongly believe that teenagers are hungry to fix a lot of the flaws that society has prepared for them. In order to do that everyone needs to be very honest about what is not working, that is NOT a simple task. I am absolutely sure that boarding schools are not immune, the aggressions faced by their minority students are very real. That goes for on campus and off campus. The article focuses on private schools in New York but this dialogue is happening in many circles, including public schools, colleges, work places, social media… on-line forums :wink:

As the article states “This is messy work…But these conversations are necessary.”

I saw The Prep School Negro and it is a great testimony on the cost of assimilation. These are big ideas, that are far reaching. I’m eager to see http://www.notracistmovie.com/