{"id":155632,"date":"2020-11-17T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155632"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:41:57","slug":"forum-reveals-reality-of-racial-issues-at-umw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/11\/17\/forum-reveals-reality-of-racial-issues-at-umw-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum Reveals Reality of Racial Issues at UMW"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure id=\"attachment_155630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155630\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155630\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Washington&rsquo;s U.S. Race &amp; Reality Forum, an eight-week, one-credit forum, covered topics like common myths about race, privilege and fragility, Confederate monuments and identity, and policing and incarceration.\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo-300x296.jpg 300w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo-70x70.jpg 70w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo-100x100.jpg 100w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo-75x75.jpg 75w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/race-and-reality-logo.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Washington&rsquo;s U.S. Race &amp; Reality Forum, an eight-week, one-credit forum, covered topics like common myths about race, privilege and fragility, Confederate monuments and identity, and policing and incarceration.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Do you have to be a person of color to be offended by a racial epithet?<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_91108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91108\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>No, according to Alexandra Polymeropoulos, a junior at the University of Mary Washington. During a lively discussion Wednesday evening in a session of UMW&rsquo;s U.S. Race &amp; Reality Forum, Polymeropoulos said she is riled every time she hears such language. And, she added, being white makes it hard to convince peers of how much it bothers her.<\/p><p>You have to build up &ldquo;a wall of steel,&rdquo; offered classmate Andrew Schneidawind, one of more than 150 Mary Washington students who enrolled in the course.<\/p><p>Candor, frustration, hopefulness, ardor &ndash; all were on display during a Zoom session of this specially designed eight-week, one-credit race forum, which was sparked by the murder in late May of George Floyd.<\/p><p>The sessions featured UMW faculty and staff, as well as speakers from outside the university. &ldquo;We wanted to offer some conventional academic knowledge, but also make it possible for students to hear directly from individuals involved in making change,&rdquo; said one of the co-facilitators, Associate Professor of Anthropology Jason James. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/17\/forum-reveals-reality-of-racial-issues-at-umw\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have to be a person of color to be offended by a racial epithet?No, according to Alexandra Polymeropoulos, a junior at the University of Mary Washington. During a lively discussion Wednesday evening in a session of UMW&rsquo;s U.S. Race &amp; Reality Forum, Polymeropoulos said she is riled every time she hears such language. 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