Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/15/2022
Alan Borsuk's complete list:
- school choice
- spending
- response to pandemic issues
- parent power (a.k.a. "parents' rights")
- Milwaukee Public Schools (Milwaukee's population is 38.7% Black, 35.1% White)
- teaching race-related content (i.e., critical race theory)
- reading reform
- hot-button social issues (i.e., anti-LGBTQ book banning and censorship)
New York Times Book Review excerpt (The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, by Krisitn Henning)
“We live in a society that is uniquely afraid of Black children,” Henning writes. “Americans become anxious — if not outright terrified — at the sight of a Black child ringing the doorbell, riding in a car with white women or walking too close in a convenience store. Americans think of Black children as predatory, sexually deviant and immoral. … There is something particularly efficient about treating Black children like criminals in adolescence. Black youth are dehumanized, exploited and even killed to establish the boundaries of Whiteness before they reach adulthood and assert their rights and independence.”
And this is the fear that the GOP will continue to stoke in earnest his year.
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