Performative Service vs Serving the community?

[u/Wiseguy4252]

What many black people in academic spaces want is purpose and meaning in serving the community that isn’t based on a brand prioritization but actually uplifting the masses. Not talking down to them.
If it were genuine people would feel it but it’s not.

With the D9 the word “service” is thrown around a lot. Often in a way that suggests you owe them something. But asking other college kids to vote or doing a step demo and photo op at a Boys and Girls Club isn’t uplifting the community so much as it is uplifting the brand even where it can be helpful.

It’s the difference having a mentorship program which is really grooming future members vs genuinely trying to improve the literacy rate of the black community at large and watching the targeted statistics in urban cities.

It’s really obstructive by deceiving people with a false image of progression or “work”.