Shimon Cohen

@ShimonDCohen

Father | Husband | LCSW | Clinical Instructor & BSSW Field Ed. Coord. School of Social Work | Host & Producer of Doin’ The Work podcast

Joined December 2012

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  1. 8 hours ago
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  2. 8 hours ago

    Amazing article! Why I Still Want the Women's March to Succeed – Tablet Magazine

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    We tried. 🤷‍♀️ For folks ready to do the work: "SYLLABUS: ELIZABETH WARREN, CHEROKEE CITIZENSHIP, AND DNA TESTING"

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  4. 10 hours ago
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    Progressives gained some important ground negotiating around yesterday’s rules package. One was that has agreed to seat *every* House committee with 40% Progressive Caucus members. The other: & secured 1st-ever hearings on .

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    22 hours ago

    Check out the CSWE Diversity Center's Educator|Resource of the Month for ready-to-use lecture notes, videos, activities, & discussion questions on reducing problems in young people w/ a focus on reducing racial & socioeconomic disparities

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    Jan 3

    TY &let's talk abt it ! In diversity course, I explicitly identify&engage abt white supremacy as we move thru semester learning what it means to be an anti-racist SW practioner, our positionality, racism,sovereignty.There's 1 read on reparations but I'll +!

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    Jan 2
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    Sounds like a chat topic to me !

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  9. Jan 2

    Anyway and I hope we can dialogue about this.

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  10. Jan 2
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  11. Jan 2

    Also - “... I saw not so much a culture of pathology, as a culture fitted for a pathological world.”

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  12. Jan 2

    For blacks born under the burden, there is a need to believe that a better day is on the horizon, that their lives, their children’s lives, & their grand-children’s lives are not forever condemned to carry that weight, which white people can only but sense.”

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  13. Jan 2

    “This holds especially true for the problem of white supremacy. For white people who have not quite taken on the full load of ancestral debt but can sense its weight, there is a longing for some magic that might make the burden of slavery & all that followed magically vanish.

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  14. Jan 2

    Some of the parts that really got me thinking from the Notes From The Sixth Year, Coates’ reflection on the essay are: “In all of American life, there is a bias toward the happy ending, toward the notion that human resilience and intellect will be a match for any problem.

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  15. Jan 2

    What I mean by pathologizing is that even concepts such as post-traumatic slave syndrome could potentially result in students only focusing on the “syndrome” aspects & not understanding that WHITE SUPREMACY & RACISM are what need to be emphasized, historically & present day. 5/x

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  16. Jan 2

    In fact, any discussion of historical trauma of the Black population should include a discussion of the case for reparations, otherwise we could be contributing to pathologizing the population. 4/x

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  17. Jan 2

    For education, one of the most important aspects of the reparations discussion is the history of how governmental policies were racist and contributed to the current wealth gap & that any discussion of social programs cannot be complete without this history. 3/x

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  18. Jan 2

    For all our talk of social justice, I’ve never heard the reparations discussion come up! I actually learned about it years ago when I had dropped out of school & was educated by some former Black Panthers about it. 2/x

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  19. Jan 2

    Hey - I’ve been reading We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates - powerful text that should be used in SW classes - and his essay The Case for Reparations is a subject that really needs to be given attention in our field. 1/x

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    31 Dec 2018

    For a shocking number of students, the college experience means living in your car to avoid massive debt. These two students showed us how they get by while homeless and in college

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