To evoke the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Continuing to borrow from King, as international educators, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” So what does our tacit silence to issues of racial injustice reveal about our internationally-mindedness and global connectedness?
Darnell Fine is an instructional coach and social justice facilitator whose work focuses on questions of power and applying radical imagination to the profession of teaching.