Transcript August 15, 2012 Why Do We Celebrate Diversity? Moritz College of Law, 1L Orientation 2012 Sharon L.

August 15, 2012
Why Do We Celebrate
Diversity?
Moritz College of Law, 1L Orientation 2012
Sharon L. Davies
Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity
John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law,
The Ohio State University
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Why do we celebrate diversity?
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Why do we celebrate diversity?
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Do we celebrate diversity?
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Who did “We the People” include?
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Do we celebrate diversity?
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U.S. Const. Art. I, sec. 2:
“…three fifths of a man”
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U.S. Const. Art. IV, sec. 2
Fugitives “shall be delivered up…”
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Lynching in America
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Celebrating Diversity?
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1896: Plessy v. Ferguson
United States Supreme Court
“Separate but equal”
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U.S. Military, Tuskegee Airmen
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Anti-miscegenation Laws
No Black/White Marriage
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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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Loving v. Virginia, 1967
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Birmingham, Alabama
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Women in American History
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1920—Nineteenth Amendment
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Mass Killing at Sikh Temple
August 2012
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Celebrating American Diversity?
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Celebrating American Diversity?
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“The past is not dead. It’s not even past.”
-- Faulkner
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Moritz College of Law
Class of 2015
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Reason #1:
Some of the worst moments in human history
have occurred when we have failed to celebrate
the value and worth of all of us.
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“History does not repeat itself exactly,
but it does rhyme.”
-- Mark Twain
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Reason #2:
Diversity deepens our understanding of those
not like us, and makes us better thinkers.
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Reason #3:
We understand the error and danger of
prejudice and bias, and the need to arm ourselves
against them in every way we can.
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Implicit Bias
Unconscious
Automatic
Associations
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Why do we celebrate diversity?
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celebrate diversity
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