Camden’s Blog

I was very impressed with most of what Gorski had to say in person and would very much like to hear his full presentation.  I wholeheartedly agreed with what he said about how it was not courageous of him to be doing this work but in fact he was the very person who needed to be doing it since he was of the most privileged group in our society.  I completely co-sign that we were a group more opened to understanding and supporting the need to challenge and dismantle the systems of our society that rely on some being privileged and some being unprivileged.  But there were way too many women, people of color, and progressive scholars in the room for us to feel as if his message was growing any wings to take flight.  What we need is for more white people, men and women to see this as an “our” problem and not a “their” problem that we are going to help them with.  A sort of off-the-subject aha moment for me was his quiz and in particular the statistics on unions in this country.  When did I fall asleep on this one?  My father is the first postal union president ever elected and he absolutely wants to beat me when I tell him a shop at Walmart!  So here I live in a right-to-fire state, wondering why it doesn’t have a teacher’s union, and exactly what connection does that have to poverty –duh!  Thanks for reawakening my consciousness Mr. Gorski J

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