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The diversity industry.(report)
In a scene from the comic strip, The Boondocks, a white suburban teacher is panic-stricken to discover that his new student is a "ghetto youth." Luckily, the principal announces he has already procured money for "sensitivity training." He promptly hands the teacher a stack of rental videos including Menace II Society and Booty Call.
While Aaron McGruder's comic strip takes a humorous stab at sensitivity training, it also suggests that undoing racism requires much more than getting a young black boy from the hood accepted to a white suburban school. There was, mad still is, the challenge of changing people's behaviour group interactions, and institutional ...
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