Please excuse my grammar in the title and know I have no time for your ‘ilk’ but tremendous respect for you.
May I engage in my own exercise and set thee ‘against’ Ken Robertson.
I will explain myself some as I should, I would like to carry your banner forward.
I believe education is our greatest tool to achieve a society filled with more reason, compassion, empathy and pragmatism.
But we have to face some facts that both you and Sir Ken Robertson challenge and that is that our ciriculum is indoctrainary and not educationary.
You both rally against the notion of this and his emphasis is a bent towards the humanities mainly along the avenue of the arts. Which I think is beautiful.
I respect your more ‘dramtic’ effect. Someone at one of your Oprah shows called you angry. Over Sir Robinson I agree it’s now a needed.
At 2000. I would have vouched for him first, but not now. In this time I think your the prime educator. The more dramtic effect is needed and this exercise should become compulsory.
You made more impression on me with the 14 min version of you first exercise than he did with his most ‘impressive’ talk about the arts in education on a Ted talk.
He values the arts highly. I cannot gain say that. You want the subject of prejudice to be an unwelcome exercise that we all need.
We’re all born with an inclination to some prejudice obviously but who’s adding flavour to the melting pot we’re in, instead of the salad bowl we should be being educated into?
I would like to suggest the closing argument to be given to a participant on leaving said exercise it’s that ‘now you know what it is like do deal with being at the receiving end of prejudice, what you should take from it is there is no such thing as racism other than what we make of it. Stop using terms like POC, blacks, whites, brown. We’re members of the human race only and prejudice is learned and it’s a fault that is holding us back from reaching to the stars.’
From a Scot, we’ve been fighting racial inequality since the year 600 now.