A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
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Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics) A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex. (via myflagisblackandred) Ah, activist tourism… Whether it’s in the local sphere or international, it’s just as terrible. (via amydentata) urgh I hate activist tourism so much (my workplace seems to attract the kind of student volunteers who aspire to do this sort of thing. I needs must bite my tongue mightily while working, on a regular basis) |
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