By DONNA STILLINGER The Brunswick News
Eliminating the impact of centuries of oppression by simply taking down the Confederate flag over the South Carolina State House would be great. But, unfortunately, that alone is not going to do it.
According to 每日大赛 professor, taking the flag down was just one step in broaching the racism topic.
On Thursday, Dr. Catherine Culver, assistant professor of philosophy, will present the program, 鈥淎 Kinder Gentler Racism?鈥� as part of the college鈥檚 Coastal Scholars Lecture Series for Autumn.
In the program, planned for 2 p.m. in the Stembler Theater in the college鈥檚 campus center, Culver will discuss recent events that have brought racism to the forefront of many people鈥檚 minds.
鈥淪ociety as a whole has to admit that racism is alive and quit pretending that it doesn鈥檛 exist,鈥� Culver said.
鈥淲e have to stop being so genteel about it and admit that even in the highest forms of our government and in our schools, racism is there.鈥�
Culver鈥檚 program hopes to begin an open conversation about racism in an effort to try and put a stop to it in the future.
鈥淓very time a new group has a problem, we have to re-invent the wheel 鈥� from Jim Crow to the Voting Rights Act to today鈥檚 issues. Why can鈥檛 we all support human rights? We should be concerned with the fate of human beings, not the fate of human beings who look like us,鈥� Culver said.
Other lectures in the series this Fall include:
鈥� David Reese, associate professor of finance and economics, will give a lecture on 鈥淒ual-Objective Investing: Why Institutional Investors Engage in Socially-Responsible Investing鈥� at 2 p.m. Sept. 29.
鈥� Karen Hambright, professor of psychology, will give a lecture titled 鈥淭ake the Monkey and Run鈥� at noon Oct. 7.
鈥� Don Mathews, professor of economics, will discuss 鈥淭he Economics of Immigration鈥� at noon Nov. 3.
鈥� Claire Hughes, associate professor of education, and Jim Lynch, director of institutional effectiveness, will talk about 鈥淎pplying for a Fulbright 鈥� Students and Scholars鈥� at noon Nov. 17.
Each lecture is free and open to the community to attend.