Ruby Payne: An Invisible Woman's Post on the Matter

"By doing so, Payneis perpetuating negative stereotypes by equating poverty with people of

color. Although there is a correlation between race and class, this does

not justify her use of racialized “case studies.”

Payne’s audience of teachers is primarily white, female, and middle

class, so their probable shared perspective makes it likely that such signals

will be understood as racial."

So Payne is saying that being African American, or non-white Hispanic is synonymous with poor? For all who are interested--especially Dr, Kimmons as we talked briefly about this--here is a video by Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, a professor of sociology at Howard University on how black male students are taught. Somehow this all registers the same with me.

At any rate, the article does go in depth in its critique of Ruby Payne's methodology that was not ethical and exposing her biases. The sad reality is that we all are oblivious to our privilege, whether it is regarding our race, class or gender. In my case, I am always responding to blogs that focus on dismantling racial privilege through dialogue, but I bet someone out there has felt that I was oblivious to their struggles because of class. If that makes sense.

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