NonDiversificiation is a form of Racism

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/opinion/if-philosophy-wont-diversify-lets-call-it-what-it-really-is.html?_r=0


Manuel Browne : "not sure how sciences can accomplish racism to be honest.
Secondly, if University schools only offer certain types of philosophy from different countries, that doesn't equate that philosophy itself is racist, the institution/university propagating that form of it, is."

ME:

hmmmm...

Exposure and Experience seems to be everything eh?

Go to a US university, pick any topic.

and if you have been exposed to any cultures, perspectives and thought outside the western white paradigm you will know none of that is catered for, to or integrated

Make it simple.

Go and do Rural Sociology and Development in an American university. And then do so at a university in the South , where there is a thing and region called the Black Belt. Indicating if you dont know the predomination of black african people, and that department will not let you research those communities, their problems, their challenges.

How do i know this. I tried to do research on Black Farmers and their experiences with the USDA with land ownership and services, which the USDA is for! Extension, and I was not allowed.

That is Racism

and when they do, the work and inquiry, the approach is very skewed, derelict, dominating as imposing. I can go on and on. I have the years of experience to document and prove it, and I have. I had an ethnographic essay of my phd Experience published, invited to present at numerous conferences on the issue.

Mind you, this happened because it is an acknowledged phenomena. You might want to be google, if you want to be honest on this matter. And it is not on just fields predominated by white males as many of my fields are: Animal Science, Agricultural Economics. When i was doing my degree there were a total of just three black =women doing phds in that field. one was from Africa,

Experience, Exposure, Knowledge, is everything.

There is a lot people dont know and live as if they do.

The bottom line here though is one must be totally versed in "Racism" what it is and isnt, how it shows up in various arenas such as academics, professions, and then for different regions and countries, as in the US, versus the Caribbean, versus Europe...There is a lot to know and learn and very few study that. Especially those must subjugated and effected.

Mind you to give you an even smaller example.

One of my favorite minors for my bachelors decades ago was World Religions. Do you want to take a guess of what religions and ways of life from people who were nonEuropean or the dominated religions were included. Take a wild guess.

Then I did philosophy as a subset area for my PhD, cause as you may know that stands for Doctor of PHILOSOPHY< so there is the study of what philosophy is, the major themes, authors, perspectives. As well as the philosophy of research I did, which is and would be a rarely known area of study in this caribbean...Do you want to take a wild guess of different paradigms were covered in that subset of courses in the late 90s, to 2002 or so?? wild guess.

One of the very things these courses teach against: BIAS, is the very thing the reinforce and perpetuate>

A lot to know and learn. even more to understand/

Racism and Bias, makes and accomplishes two of many things. One it breaks an aspirant academic down, one who wants to build an area of inquiry, research and publishing in a certain field. And they are disallowed. Guess what that accomplishes?

The other thing it can do, is make someone like myself carve my own territory, which i did. and the one sister I was studying with outside of two others, congratulated me after my completion...She thought I strategized and navigated well, and played the chess board laid out. Not for us to succeed but to fail and not complete. She didnt.

That is the ultimate effect of this matter. Those who are thwarted.

Talk about Racism.

The final thing you miss from your mis=reading of this?

IS that academia is predominately uniform across the globe. There are words for that: Colonialism and Domination, and White Supremacy Domination

So If "Secondly, if University schools only offer certain types of philosophy from different countries, that doesn't equate that philosophy itself is racist, the institution/university propagating that form of it, is" what that effects my friend is no one competent, trained, developed, experienced and qualified to do different.

System Reinforcement and Reproduction Much?

We have no clue how self replicating the systems we participate.

There is a reason for the call to people to educate themselves. Kind of like a certain Malcolm X saying , dont send your children to the enemy to teach

HomeSchooling TnT