If there's one thing I would immediately call a bad idea, it's trying to plan a Black History Month meal.
If there's one thing I would immediately call a bad idea, it's trying to plan a Black History Month meal. There's no possible way this will not be insensitive to somebody. Not to mention you should just never, ever have watermelon anywhere near it, no matter what. I suppose if you have to try to do this, you can do it with a local African American organization and your history department, or something, but even then it could be fraught. Apparently, several schools tried something like this, not just NYU.
https://www.theroot.com/nyu-catches-heat-for-racially-insensitive-black-history-1823223839
https://www.theroot.com/nyu-catches-heat-for-racially-insensitive-black-history-1823223839
https://www.theroot.com/nyu-catches-heat-for-racially-insensitive-black-history-1823223839
https://www.theroot.com/nyu-catches-heat-for-racially-insensitive-black-history-1823223839
Yeah. What's stunningly blind/stupid/idiotic is that many of these campuses not only have African American student organizations, they have African American Studies departments. In other words, official groups of people who might have some idea how to run an event that ostensibly is for their own group...
ReplyDeleteThis is about as idiotic as the (very common) situation of having policies that impact women being written by committees of all men.