What you’re doing right now is like trying to lecture in an economics class simply because you have $20 in your wallet. Your experience is your experience, but if you don’t know about the difference between prejudice and racism please don’t lecture and definitely please don’t assume that your experience is a…

I’m gonna guess that this lady also doesn’t “see race”! Having “children of all races” at your school is not the same as not fucking having racist children and families and staff at your goddamn school.

Right? This is the sticking point with so many white people I talk to about race. Colorblindness + the attitude that a person can’t be racist if they’re not overtly hateful = so hard to reason with.

Teachers don’t drag children around any more, and especially since children don’t actually have an elbow joint until they’re about four, it’s a very fucking bad idea to do it.

On the contrary, there are PLENTY of reasons to make this a race thing. Implicit bias in early childhood teachers is a known, empirically-proven presence in our current system.

Why is it so important to you that his photo reflect his age at the time of his murder? Is it actually a battle you feel the need to fight? How are you being mislead by what you think is a younger image of this kid?

This guy? His “feminist” “wife” claiming that Handmaid’s Tale is a rape fantasy? Did he meet this wife at band camp last summer, and does he not have a photo of her because he lost it? And and does he not have her phone number because her family doesn’t believe in phones but she’s TOTALLY smokin’ and she totally…

White lady here- as others have said, there’s a pretty big space to occupy between remaining silent and being a white savior. Here’s one thing right here- I’m a white person talking to another white person about allyship. I’m not going to tell you what to do, but I will tell you that it’s really important to listen…

THANK YOU.

Thank you so much for this piece! I am loving this feature so far.

I suspect that whoever was doing the copy at The Bee had just typed “Muhammad” and their brain auto-filled “Ali” in there. Still, it’s not that different from misspelling some other important names, like Geesis.

“Muhammad dove to the ground and yelled ‘Ali Akbar’”

I’m not well caffeinated and I can’t tell if your post is sincere or not. I squinched up my face many times while reading it, so my hope is that you’re joking.

Fellow white person here- just take the ribbing and the criticism. We can handle it, buddy. Unless I missed it, no one was promised actual advice here.

YES! And I can’t tell you how disappointing it is that many teacher training programs do not make her work required reading (especially those who are sending white teachers in to classrooms full of children of color). We’re doing the teachers and the children real harm...

If you are at all interested in these issues, PLEASE check out Lisa Delpit’s work. She is a really important voice on issues of race in the classroom. https://www.c-span.org/video/?305350-1/multiplication-white-people

Agree on all counts!

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Thank you for this!

Yeah, I was looking at the time stamp where you doubled-down on the shaming on Saturday night. My bad. Feel free to keep insulting me too, if that’s what you need to do. I may not be on your level, but I’m most definitely okay with that.