Monday, April 5, 2010

Beyond the pale

Johnathan Kay in the National Post goes to the Toronto Women's Bookstore to be White & guilty: ‘Whiteness’ workshop helps expose your inner racist
Another woman described her torment when a friend asked her to give a presentation about media arts to a group of black students -- an exercise that would have made a spectacle of her white privilege. "Should I say yes? Or is it my responsibility to say no?" she said.
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

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