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How to feel better? Quit being so "offended" and "storming" out. Everyone doesn't have an agenda to hurt your feelings. All we hear about anymore is race - it's non-stop, around the clock, yet you take it as a slight when someone mentions it?
" Never been so humiliated" , You haven't been around much have you ?
I do, only because it is likely the teacher had to go through diversity training in which all of them were told to make sure that everyone feels included and recognized and celebrated because of race. They were probably also told, 'everyone learns differently' and 'everyone gets offended at different things' so they needed to check in on all students of diversity to make sure all individual needs were being met, no one was offended, and that the students were feeling welcomed in the class because of their individual diverse circumstances.
The teacher probably felt they were doing their job well by taking this approach.
This is why diversity training is so useless. All it does is reinforce stereotypes.
While I somewhat agree, I believe this "teacher" is in his "church" doing free, bizarre relationship classes.
Given the context, that is offensive, it didn't appear as an innocent genuine curiosity about your race, she was suggesting that your race will be a factor in relating to content that she would be discussing- not appropriate.
Or a religion class where different races traditionally have different religions.
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What if the class was Sociology and the discussion was how culture contributed to your outlook?
Yes I agree how one's race has relevance in understanding/ relating to a certain area of discussion
Believe me I am not one to downplay race (I've had encounters where you can't help but figure race was a trigger)
I think it was the context, of how the instructor supposedly inquired about the race infront of other people, it can be a sensitive issue, let alone additional aspects if one was of mixed race. The OP was already touchy that the instructor always talked about race
I think it was the context, of how the instructor supposedly inquired about the race infront of other people, it can be a sensitive issue, let alone additional aspects if one was of mixed race.
Correct, and it's not ok to ask one person to speak for an entire race, which sounds like what she was getting at here.
The OP already claims it wasn't the church class, but it's really hard to imagine him being in college.
Of course, he's not back to actually answer anything.
OP, given your very bizarre threads and the tone of most of your posts, I too find it hard to believe that you're in college. I guess I'm being passive-aggressive too?
Yes I agree how one's race has relevance in understanding/ relating to a certain area of discussion
Believe me I am not one to downplay race (I've had encounters where you can't help but figure race was a trigger)
I think it was the context, of how the instructor supposedly inquired about the race infront of other people, it can be a sensitive issue, let alone additional aspects if one was of mixed race. The OP was already touchy that the instructor always talked about race
The OP has given us very little information about what this class is and has been consistently vague throughout the thread. He’s also said that the teacher talks about race a lot, but it might be a class where race is quite pertinent to the class- religion, sociology, history, political science, psychology, or even an English/literature class with a theme related to a specific sort of literature.
The subject could have been about being an outsider in a group, or a partial outsider in a group for all we know...
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