Wednesday, March 6, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: White students at Massachusetts school party like it's 1859

 
Headline: Boston Globe, 3/5/2024
Swan spoke of parents who had moved out of the school district because their children were “harassed and bullied,” teachers of color who have come forward about “racial discrimination” within the district, and school alumni who had also experienced racism and who had created a petition calling for accountability. 
“We’re here not just to talk about the slave auction that was online,” Swan said. “We’re here to talk about Black students being call [the n-word] while they’re in school, a word that is steeped in racial history of slavery, of brutalization, of dehumanization.
Related reading:
Boston Globe, 2/23/2024


Location of Southwick indicated on map.




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