RACE / RACISM

Black Parents Drowned Out at School Boards; Twitter’s Photo Crops Reveal Bias Toward Whiteness

Catch up on the latest race and racism news you might have missed.

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The stories in this week’s collection of race and racism news have really got me thinking about perspectives — namely, which perspectives are highlighted, and which are shunted to the shadows. Our first item has Black parents struggling to make critical race theory critics see how racism continues to impact their children. In the next, publishers of textbooks for Christian schools are apparently trying to confuse civil rights movements for equality as battles for Black supremacy. Meanwhile, Twitter’s algorithms crop out the people it — and ultimately, society — views as less important to the big picture.

Black parents fight to be heard over anti-critical race theory noise at school board meetings

The hyperventilating panic over critical race theory (which is almost never about actual critical race theory and more about schools’ efforts to expand lessons beyond Eurocentric perspectives) has filtered down to local school boards. Masses of misinformed parents fill public comment sessions with accusations that pledges to…