During the Civil Rights era, activists worked for change within existing systems and institutions—that is, they took the laws of those institutions and used them against them. But activists today argue that the institutions that govern our society do not want to acknowledge the problems of systematic racism and that working within the system is ineffective. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

During the Civil Rights era, activists worked for change within existing systems and institutions—that is, they took the laws of those institutions and used them against them. But activists today argue that the institutions that govern our society do not want to acknowledge the problems of systematic racism and that working within the system is ineffective. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

So what is intelligence?

So what is intelligence? The fact that your book doesn’t give you a definition of intelligence, as a single concept, provides the perfect opportunity for our next discussion. Read through the chapter and this module and then write a definition of “intelligence.” Don’t Google it. Don’t use someone else’s definition. This must be your definition, your own thoughts, in your own words. We want to explore your definitions, as informed by course material. I won’t even put a word count on it. Create a definition of intelligence, according to you.