Having two professors join in on our class engagement with diversity truly helped me further answer questions that I was struggling with. I thought I was really great to have Dr. Webster Moore as a guide in this journey in diversity. She has comes from an African American upbringing, studied in throughout college to become a teacher, then principle, and now a college professor here at Trinity. I really liked how she used her past experiences working with children to answer our deep questions. Though some of the questions my peer asked weren’t easy I really appreciated her responses and how she explained it come back to being just as an individual. On the other hand, I really appreciated the responses from Dr. Kuecker. His world viewpoints were great point that I value and now see in a completely different way. I was happy to her him justify his reasoning of sympathy to empathy. I felt that that truly had me thinking on a new level. Many white female teachers feel sorry for students, when in reality sympathy for your students does not help them succeed but it may in a sense make them stay where they are. Since a teacher sympathize for students it produces a stereotype, which Dr. Webster Moore made a point to that those students will begin to feel that they are a part of that very stereotype. This discussion raised questions not only diversity but really made myself and my peers think about who we are as individual and how we treat others.
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