{"id":32600,"date":"2013-07-28T03:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32600"},"modified":"2013-07-28T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T03:38:19","slug":"moving-forward-on-race-%e2%80%93-by-understanding-our-own-prism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32600","title":{"rendered":"Moving forward on race \u2013 by understanding our own prism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracediverseschools.com\/2013\/07\/26\/moving-forward-on-race-one-conversation-at-a-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moving forward on race \u2013 by understanding our own prism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracediverseschools.com\" target=\"_blank\">Embrace Diverse Schools: Beyond celebrating: Debunking myth-perceptions to build strong diverse schools and communities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracediverseschools.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to Eileen Kugler&#8217;s Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracediverseschools.com\/eileenkugler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eileen Kugler<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get it. Why do we need to be talking about race?\u201d a commenter wrote on a LinkedIn group on diversity and inclusion. In her high school, \u201ceveryone got along great and we actually looked down on those who were prejudiced against one race over another.\u201d So she can\u2019t figure what the big issue is right now.<\/p>\n<p>Her authentic comment is just the reason we need to keep discussing \u2013 and dealing with race. We each see issues through our own personal prism. That prism is formed by our life\u2019s experiences that include our race, ethnicity, and religion, but also factors such as our family structure and where we grew up, right down to the neighborhood we called home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> did a courageous job of helping white people to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32454\" target=\"_blank\">understand what it feels like to be a Black man in this country<\/a>, even as we are making strides every day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracediverseschools.com\/2013\/07\/26\/moving-forward-on-race-one-conversation-at-a-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving forward on race \u2013 by understanding our own prism Embrace Diverse Schools: Beyond celebrating: Debunking myth-perceptions to build strong diverse schools and communities Welcome to Eileen Kugler&#8217;s Blog 2013-07-26 Eileen Kugler \u201cI don\u2019t get it. Why do we need to be talking about race?\u201d a commenter wrote on a LinkedIn group on diversity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23,20],"tags":[15306,15305],"class_list":["post-32600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-eileen-kugler","tag-embrace-diverse-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}