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user-inactivated  ·  3586 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sometimes I forget why I'm here

Problem with naiveté is that you get conversations like in my friend's Communications elective, which included the wondrous conclusion "well we have a Black president now, so I don't know why we're talking about racism. I mean if we just stopped talking about it it would go away."

This leads to the three Black kids in a group of a 200+ lecture-hall students, only one of the three a girl, to look at you like they're wondering if you hit your head on a Wishful Thinking rock.

Also it just leads to more resentment because of a lack of understanding. "How the hell could you not know this?", essentially.

That logo is hideous, by the way.