07/05/2020
I feel like my job as a professor is to dispel misconceptions. For example, in teaching about use disorders (addictions), I challenge people's tightly held beliefs that it is a moral issue and not a disease. I feel the same responsibility with racism. Racism is a tightly held beliefs and understandings based on some things you learned as a child. Maybe it was something your parents or grandparents said. Whatever it was, if you learned it, you can learn something new.
The national conversation has shifted from CoVid19 to graphic, brutal racism. The protests on the streets have flowed into every post whether you meant it to be about George Floyd or police behavio…
