A loud minority of parents is making life miserable for school officials and shouting down kids who speak in favor of lessons about racial discrimination.
/PRNewswire/ Dallas Justice Now, a social justice activist group dedicated to ending institutional racism and creating opportunities for the black community.
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By Daniel Dale
An activist group in Texas was demanding, online and in letters delivered to homes in upscale Dallas-area communities, that “wealthy white liberals” pledge not to send their kids to top colleges so that White people could make amends for past wrongs and “open up spaces for Black and LatinX communities.”
The story about the apparent radicalism of the self-described “social justice” group Dallas Justice Now, which was even threatening to reveal the names of people who refused to sign the “college pledge,” rocketed around conservative media last week.
And then things got really weird.
Numerous observers, including some Dallas journalists and some conservative commentators, immediately suspected that Dallas Justice Now was a hoax, potentially intended to inflame racial tensions or make the Black Lives Matter movement look bad. And when journalist Steven Monacelli looked into Dallas Justice Now for a story in the Dallas Observer after local residents
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‘Dallas Justice Now’ appears to be a fake but why now, and why there?
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You’ve seen the viral memes that suction all nuance out of the day’s news. You’ve been warned to watch out for “deep fakes.” You’ve been told to regard unfamiliar websites with suspicion.
Even the contents of your actual mailbox should be treated with caution, as a recent episode in the Park Cities shows.
A letter mailed to Highland Park ISD families last month caused a commotion after an entity that calls itself Dallas Justice Now asked white parents to pledge not to send their children to Ivy League universities to open up spaces for students of color. A copy of the letter posted online reads in part: “You live in the whitest and wealthiest neighborhood in Dallas. Whether you know it or not, you earned