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Ethical Educator

Scenario: A central-office administrator who is Black has a great relationship with most colleagues in the district鈥檚 large curriculum and instruction department. One white co-worker, a caring person who works hard for the district, occasionally makes racially insensitive comments, using phrases like 鈥減laying the race card鈥� and 鈥減ull yourself up by the bootstraps.鈥� The Black administrator has been honest with her colleague about how these comments strike her but feels what she has said has not made an impression. Having read White Fragility, she knows how defensive people can get when questioned about their racial viewpoints but wishes to make clear to her co-worker these comments perpetuate stereotypes. How ought she proceed?