Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then 'Everything Just Imploded.'

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Sherrilyn Ifill
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I want you to read this. I want you to understand what is happening on school boards across the country. And how Black educators are being targeted. Most of all, how there is a concerted action to take us back to the 50s. #TruthBeTold #ProTruth
Andrea Kane on her last day as superintendent of schools in Queen Anne’s County, Md.

Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’
A Black superintendent’s email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm.
nytimes.com
11:18 AM · Oct 10, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html

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CENTREVILLE, Md. — When Andrea Kane sat down to write a letter to parents in her school district days after George Floyd’s death in 2020, images of the Black man pleading for his life under the knee of a white Minnesota police officer were haunting her.

Dr. Kane, the superintendent, saw him in the faces of Black students in her district and heard him crying out for his mother when she spoke to her own sons. So she started her letter with a warning that it would bear not just “good news,” but “a bit of a reality check.”

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the high-performing district on the Eastern Shore of Maryland had closed out the year with much to be proud of. But like the rest of the country, Dr. Kane said, the community had another crisis to confront.

“Racism is alive in our country, our state, in Queen Anne’s County, and our schools,” she wrote in the letter, emailed to the parents of all 7,700 students in the district.

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1. Thanks to Sherrilyn Ifill (and you) for posting this.

It's here too:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016303854

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10565018