{"id":2512,"date":"2012-10-04T04:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T04:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2012-10-04T04:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T04:31:24","slug":"liking-blacks-more-diversity-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"Liking blacks more: Diversity training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/diversity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2515\" title=\"diversity\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/diversity-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/diversity-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/diversity.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Nashville &#8211; Democratic leaders point to insulting comments made by two Republican lawmakers to the Legislature\u2019s black caucus in calling for legislators to undergo diversity and sensitivity training.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Jim Summerville of Dickson has been criticized for an email he sent earlier this month to the chairman of the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators saying: \u201cI don\u2019t give a rat\u2019s ass what the black caucus thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His Republican colleague, Stacey Campfield of Knoxville, has supported the comment and even called the black caucus a \u201csegregationist organization\u201d that should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jim Kyle of Memphis said he believes lawmakers would benefit from some type of sensitivity session, even if it means incorporating it into the mandatory ethics training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it is somewhat unethical to be offensive,\u201d he said. \u201cPerhaps we need to make that part of our ethics training every two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank Dobson, director of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University, said the lawmakers\u2019 offensive comments are part of what he calls the \u201cracial divide\u201d and that the training sessions may help to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still much work to be done in terms of healing, understanding and educating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville &#8211; Democratic leaders point to insulting comments made by two Republican lawmakers to the Legislature\u2019s black caucus in calling for legislators to undergo diversity and sensitivity training. State Sen. Jim Summerville of Dickson has been criticized for an email he sent earlier this month to the chairman of the Tennessee Black Caucus of State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liking blacks more: Diversity training&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1579,1580,1581,745],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-caucus","tag-diversity-training","tag-sensitivity-training","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/diversity.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}