There's a Better Way to Improve Race Relations in America | Opinion
Susan Harmeling and Charles M. Henderson
, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and Global Diversity and Leadership consultant in Johannesburg, South Africa
On 4/27/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
The headmaster of Dalton, arguably the most prominent of New York City's elite private schools, resigned last week amid scandals related to the school's new anti-racism agenda. Over at Brearley School, another Manhattan private school that costs $54,000 a year, an angry parent wrote a scathing letter to fellow parents about his intentions to withdraw his daughter from the school due to, among other things, its "obsession with race." At the Harvard Westlake School in Hollywood, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion curriculum led one mother, a successful entertainment executive, to complain to reporters that her son came home from school and said he was "bad" because "he is white and that makes him a racist and an oppressor."