Parents upset 'Black Lives Matter' assembly excludes other races

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86. Were they trying to teach about it or trying to get the black children to express their experiences?

There's a difference. If you want to teach about discrimination, then, yes, that's a lesson everyone needs to learn. But I get the feeling that this wasn't about teaching, but about letting black students talk about their experience in the school and letting them know there was administrative support for them.

Look at it this way: if you were going to teach everyone about sexual assault prevention, then a mixed group makes sense. If you're trying to get young women to talk about their experiences being assaulted at the school--things that girls don't usually talk about with each other or with administrators--then an all female group makes the most sense. In a gathering like this, administrators can learn what girls are going through and how prevalent acts like sexual harassment, groping, and other forms of assault (like ganging up on a girl at a locker to intimidate her) take place. Having males in the room would most likely stop these revelations cold.

I imagine the administrators at this high school wanted to find out how the black students were feeling at the school--a temperature check, as it were. A black student is not going to complain about white or Hispanic students/teachers in front of these students. (The possibility for retribution is very present.)