Honest education to suffer
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John Brummett
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In Oklahoma, a public school teacher could now get fired and a school could face a loss of accreditation if a white child went home after history class feeling bad about the nation s plainly racist past.
There might be this fateful after-school conversation in the kitchen: I can tell something s wrong, sweetheart. What s bothering you? I think white people like us have been bad to Black people in America. Why would you say such a thing, dear? Did you know our founding fathers had slaves? Did you know Thomas Jefferson believed white people were superior to Black people? Did you know the Civil War was about people down here wanting to keep their slaves? Did you know that white people in Tulsa burned a thousand Black people s houses because a Black teenager was falsely accused of doing something to a white woman? The police let him go; they said he probably just tripped into her or stepped on her foot. Why
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