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\nNot a Safe Space<\/p>\n
\nNot a Safe Space<\/p>\n
The Air Force has decided in order to better grow cadets into Air Warriors, a \u201cDiversity and Inclusion Reading Room\u201d was necessary. Exactly how this will assist in achieving that goal has been left unsaid. Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n
By Ray Bowden, U.S. Air Force Academy Public Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — A special reading room at the Air Force Academy might be small, but two professors say it offers cadets and faculty a treasure trove of big ideas and a safe space for open discussion. <\/p>\n The Diversity and Inclusion Reading Room in McDermott Library contains \u201ca specially curated selection of books available for borrowing, furnishings arranged for informal discussion and a response board for cadet feedback,\u201d said Daniel Couch, an assistant English professor at the school.<\/p>\n \u201cOur intention is to create an informal space for cadets and permanent party to broaden and deepen their exploration of the issues involved in diversity, inclusion and justice,\u201d Couch said.<\/p>\n Mark Jensen, president of the Academy\u2019s faculty senate and a philosophy professor, said the reading room is the result of teamwork between faculty members and the Academy\u2019s ongoing Critical Conversation series that formed in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s Death.<\/p>\n Floyd, an unarmed Black man, died May 25 in Minneapolis when a white police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee to the neck. Protesters across the world rallied in reaction, sparking an international movement surrounding racial injustice in the U.S.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople kept mentioning books in those conversations,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cThere\u2019s hundreds of books that ought to be available.\u201d<\/p>\n The reading room opened at the start of the Spring Semester in January and contains a wide range of \u201cprimary sources, secondary sources, historical accounts, contemporary discussions, empirical studies and fiction,\u201d Couch said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Think this sad? Watch West Point and Annapolis fall all over themselves creating their own safe spaces. Read the entire valentine here: USFA<\/a> and the article Poe sent, here: Todd Starnes<\/a>
\nThanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"