Jodi Shaw is blowing the whistle on the racially hostile environment at Smith College. Her story shows us that the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a far cry from the mainstream approach to racial healing. It’s no secret that critical race theory is controversial. It has become common knowledge that people of many races and ethnicities have substantiated concerns about judging a person based on the color of their skin and not the content of their character. Jodi Shaw is one of many concerned Americans, and at the peak of political tension, she was one of the few who were brave enough to speak out.
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Is ‘ art ‘ or being an ‘ artist ‘ an important category or class? Is being a ‘ person ‘ or just alive a very meaningful experience?
Maybe ‘art’ is being alive with human insight on human experience.
Maybe art is different from ‘being woke?’
Can ‘ meaning ‘ be associated with the individual locus of the human mind?
Maybe a ‘free person’ is something different from ‘being woke?’
What did the U.S. President say? Something like: “if you dont vote for me, you aint ‘black[?].'”
Does finding that there is a ‘God-shaped hole’ for you mean you must fill up the hole with rocks and substance? Maybe there is the room for adventurous investigation and exploration?
Does the ‘heart’ mean something antithetical to reason and/or logic? Maybe ‘ integrity ‘ matters? Let us hope that heart includes the ‘mind,’ and vice versa.
Step out in your own way. Other people might be ‘ swayed ‘ along.