What Difference Does Difference Make?
Jerry Benston, Jr. |
TEDxOshkosh
• November 2018
In the fall of 1968, 94 Black students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh made a conscious decision to put their college careers on the line and participate in a demonstration for social justice aimed at improving diversity and a more inclusive campus environment. That demonstration resulted in all 94 Black students being arrested, jailed and expelled from the university. Jerry Benston was one of those students.
Almost exactly 50 years later, are things better? A lot? A little? Do we have a better acceptance of diversity and inclusion? Are we more aware of unconscious bias? Where do we go from here?