Socratic Seminar Part 2!

Today we were able to discuss our topic "white priviledge" the conversation tended to learn more on the quesiton of gender vs. race issues and at sometimes was a bit uninteresting. I think that out of all the seminars I have done since 7th grade I participated in this the least. This was not because I didn't feel like adding to the conversation or that I was lazy and didn't read it but quite the contrary. I read it about three times reading it over and over again mostly because I strongly disagreed with the author's views and found that her feminist opinions were highly biased. I think I talked more about it between Andrew and Olivia before the seminar than I did during it. The problem was that the topics that were brought up didn't really stimulate me into saying anything and I was going to talk for the sake of talking.

Granted there were a few moments during the conversation that I decided to speak up, but for the most part I was dissatisfied with the text and thought that the topic could have been much more provocative with a different text.

In the end the group did a good job for what they were working with and I tip my hat to them because what I find normally happens is that the people who usually don't talk don't and the people who usually do, (I would classify myself as that) do. But this time most everyone threw something important out there that most likely added to others thoughts and developed opinions.