Clint Smith warns us of the danger of silence on episode 141 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I was failing to speak up on behalf of issues that didn’t directly affect me, and that caused me a deep amount of shame.
–Clint Smith

What does it look like to be more proactive in being the sort of person that I’m asking my students to be?
–Clint Smith

What is the role and responsibility of someone given access to a platform of potential power and influence?
–Clint Smith

There’s a difference between a sort of silence of complicity and a silence of listening. I think it’s important that we differentiate and disentangle the two.
–Clint Smith

We need to think about the ways in which our identities shape whether or not we should be speaking or listening.
–Clint Smith

The act of empathy and the act of listening … is going to be more important now than ever.
–Clint Smith

I believe deeply in the fact that I am a partner in my students’ academic journey.
–Clint Smith

Resources Mentioned

TED Talk – How to Raise a Black Son in America
This Viral Trump Syllabus Will Help You Understand How the Mess Was Made
Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data
TED Talk: The Danger of Silence
Glynn Washington (from the Snap Judgment podcast) shared about contextualizing people’s stories when he spoke at the Podcast Movement conference.
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality

The Four Principles:

read critically
write consciously
speak clearly
tell your truth

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The Danger of Silence

Teaching in Higher Ed