Professor Morrow Summary

Professor Morrow was the person who facilitated the panel discussion that focuses on white feminism and its drawbacks. She handed everyone present in the room a packet on White Privilege that gives light of its daily effects. She attached a sheet that identified the conditions that minority people face but white people don’t at all. Before the lecture began, Professor Morrow was impressed by the number of people who showed up. The entire classroom, which was taken place in the CLO Building, was filled, and there had to be more chairs brought in from another classroom. During the lecture, Professor Morrow invited a mother and daughter to give a half an hour discussion on personal experiences and issues that they had faced in real life. The daughter is currently going to school to Purdue Northwest, and specializes in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. The daughter, whose name I had forgotten, was given permission by her mother to discuss with the audience what her family faced in the time where African American women were neglected in school. The mother went to college while raising two daughters as a single parent. She was striving to achieve a Bachelor’s degree to make herself and her daughter’s lives better. However, some of her …show more content…
They expressed their opinion on white feminism and Black Lives Matter via video chat to the audience in the room. Both were African American women named Lorraine and Jones, who graduated from Purdue Northwest a couple of years ago. Jones works for a news editorial that touches on Black Lives Matter and police brutality that aim at her race. She made a good point about feminism overall, stating that feminism is for all women. It’s very foundation is based on being intersectional. People shouldn’t have to call themselves Intersectional Feminists when that is what it really means. “It’s redundant,” she said. “Feminism includes all women, from white to