I went to the lecture featuring Dr. Douglas, Dr. Jett, and Dr. Logan on Tuesday night because I am in Dr. Bauman’s class that is associated with the lecture series. We had the opportunity to have dinner with the speakers beforehand, and it was really nice to have personal one on one conversations with them. The lecture itself was so interesting too, partly because Dr. Bauman had us read Dr. Douglas’s book, Stand your Ground in the few weeks leading up to this event. It was so cool to be able to listen to them talk about things that I knew were going on in the world. Obviously, I hear all about the discrimination of Blacks in America all the time just by reading books and keeping up with current events, but it felt so much more real listening to a panel of experts talk about it, and it was especially interesting that they are all Black, so they have that firsthand knowledge about the topic that I, or even Dr. Bauman, may not have. I am not going to do a super in depth reflection on the talk here, because I already have to write one for Dr. Bauman, but hopefully this is interesting so far, and I am more than willing to talk more about it to anyone else interested!
While this is not technically related to China, I still thought I would share my input on the discussion not only because it is interesting, but because the next lecture in October will be focusing on Islam, and I am pretty sure we will have wrapped up the China unit by then and have moved on to Islam.