[Edling] US: To understand white liberal racism, read these private emails

[Francis Hult]

KUOW


To understand white liberal racism, read these private emails


On a gray day last October, teachers across Seattle wore a shirt that read BLACK LIVES MATTER.


They knew there might be criticism. John Muir Elementary in south Seattle had done this in September and received a bomb threat and hate mail from across the U.S.


But they did, and the day was, by most accounts, uneventful. Some kids got it - most didn't. Just another school day.


And then, a backlash, but this time not from outsiders. White parents from the city's tonier neighborhoods wrote to their principals to say they were displeased. A Black Lives Matter day was too militant, too political and too confusing for their young kids, they said.

Full story:
http://kuow.org/post/understand-white-liberal-racism-read-these-private-emails

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