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Last month, my 8-year-old sister came home from school deflated and torn. Thankfully, her school took the incident seriously, and the boy ended up writing a letter of apology to my sister, saying he was «sorry for being mean» and that he «will work harder at being a better friend». I felt happy that the system had done its job in combating racism. But then, in that same week, my 15-year-old brother told me he is learning about the concept of «systemic racism» in his English class.
His teacher instructed her students that white people in our society are privileged and people of color are marginalized and disadvantaged. In the wake of protests after the police killing of George Floyd, the influence of Robin DiAngelo’s 2018 book «White Fragility» has spread far and wide. Seattle Public Schools held training for teachers in which they were told the US is a «race-based white-supremacist society» and white teachers must «bankrupt privilege in acknowledgment of thieved inheritance,» according to documents recently obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo. The best whites can do is become baptized in DiAngelo’s anti-racist program of eternal guilt and atonement.
Source: Rav Arora | New York Post
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