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While parents are attacking CRT at school board meetings because it might make their kids "ashamed" of their whiteness...
A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up
A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up
Kansas City (CNN) Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter's school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry.
She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri.
"She was very upset about it. My daughter's Ethiopian," Stutterheim told CNN this week.
Her daughter has encountered racism firsthand, Stutterheim says and "the more she talked about this, the more upset she got."
Stutterheim did what any concerned parent would do and reached out to the school to find out what happened.
What she found was that an increasingly familiar scenario was unfolding at her child's school. Across the US, there are two diametrically opposed conversations about race going on at the same time. In one, some White parents are telling school leaders that lessons about race make White students feel bad. And in the other, there's the racism that is actually happening in schools.