Acceptance vs power
While acceptance is certainly important for all people to exercise, I feel that this is an unrelated issue to that which is addressed in Delpit's article. Delpit is not preaching for us all to "get along" and stop hating each other, but she is rather attempting to propose a way to level the playing field for all individuals to be able to compete on the same level. Acceptance of minorities would not make it any easier for minorities to be successful in the "culture of power"; one example of this that I can cite is that of the Indian in her essay who was interviewed by a panel of White interviewers. It is never even hinted that these interviewers are racist towards or unaccepting of the Indian individual, but rather that the Indian simply does not understand what the interviewers are looking for in an interviewee, and thus, does not know how to successfully navigate the interview. Clearly, the issue here is not about acceptance, but about teaching these individuals how to penetrate the culture of power.
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