{"id":12350,"date":"2017-06-22T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/dcbrp\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:05:36","slug":"this-might-be-slightly-off-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2017\/06\/22\/this-might-be-slightly-off-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"This Might Be Slightly Off Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cultures are what unite us not divide us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah no\u2026let us not do that. That sounds that the beginning of every PowerPoint presentation that U of M shows to the incoming freshman. That sounds like the beginning of every conversation I have with white people. That sounds like something you have already heard and I have already written. So for once let us not talk about culture. <\/span><\/p>\n

I want to talk about kids roasting each other in a playground that has transformed into a oven preheated at negative fuqs degrees. I want to talk about humidity and how me and that girl need to have a long conversation that ends in \u201cDon\u2019t come over here anymore.\u201d I want to talk about smiles and how they are one of the few things that don\u2019t need translation. Most of all I want to talk about Maddy\u2019s incredible lack of bowling posture but surprising strike. <\/span><\/p>\n

See how we just talked about culture and no one felt like we had solved racial divides. See how we just talked about culture and no one felt attacked. See how we talked about culture and we talked. You heard and listened what I and to say and felt no need to stop me. I am willing to listen because you heard me. <\/span><\/p>\n

And yes, cultures are what SHOULD unite and NOT divide us but don\u2019t about it that way. Culture is that when I was growing I played Grand Theft Auto and climbed trees with my brother. Culture is that I don\u2019t use swear words in front of my mother. Culture is that I am one of the few people who don\u2019t yell at customer service representatives. Culture is beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cultures are what unite us not divide us. Yeah no\u2026let us not do that. That sounds that the beginning of every PowerPoint presentation that U of M shows to the incoming freshman. That sounds like the beginning of every conversation I have with white people. That sounds like something you have already heard and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15747,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions\/15747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}