Prof. Powell

Excellent talk. This guy is on the cutting edge of thinking through race issues as they play out today. Here's the rough sketch, in which he argues for "systems thinking" in addressing racial discrimination, and against the traditional model:

Traditional model: Victim/perpetrator, with intent, and decision-maker self awareness (transparency of mind). “I’m not Archie Bunker”

Systems Thinking: focuses on a web of relationships and processes and not on a linear, singular causation or the intent of one or even a few individuals. Actions and inactions have multiple effects, and the delayed or distant consequences are often different from more proximate effects. Interdependence of objects and their attributes, holism, goal seeking, transformation of inputs into outputs.

I'll attach my notes later.

Great stuff.

Dave