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DALILA STANFIELD: Advice that
I would give to educators

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also planning or hoping to
teach this same kind of course

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material or subject would be to
have somebody of the diaspora,

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or somebody who can relate
to the diaspora teach it.

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It's important to have
people of the background

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or of the diaspora
educating others.

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Like, who better to
educate than those

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that have experienced
it themselves,

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or those that, you know,
come from that area.

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So I feel like that's
probably the biggest

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advice I would give.

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I think maybe other advice
would be really making

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sure to create safe
spaces for students

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to have conversations, because
I feel like we had that

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in this class, and that you
can have a curriculum that

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can be very diverse, and
like, can be very open.

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But if you don't
create an environment

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where, like, in which
students can, like, openly

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speak about things and openly
talk about things, like,

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it's not going to matter.

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And I feel like it limits the
kinds of discussions you have.

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And I feel like we've had
a lot of great discussions

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in this class because the
environment has been--

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it's been a safe
environment, you know,

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and people can voice
their opinions.

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And things have gotten
very personal in this class

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sometimes.

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You know, there have
been one or two instances

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where students got up
and left, you know,

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because they were so emotional.

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And so, like, yeah.

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It's not, it's not just
about the curriculum, too.

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It's also about the
space that you create.