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CNN CNN Newsroom Live September 17, 2021 08:43:00

it is happening. but i think that the desire to make sure that kids don't feel tokenized, that they can go to school and just focus on being in school and being a kid. >> i would never ever want my child to be the one black child in a classroom. >> wouldn't wish that on anybody. >> shortly after the poseys came forward, these mothers were part of a group of concerned black parents at the school who wrote a letter in support of briscoe. they asked us to conceal their identities because of ongoing threatening phone calls to the school in the wake of the segregation claims. they believe briscoe acted in good faith. if the race was used as a factor in the class placement, they say they are in full support. >> i grew up where i was the only black child in the honors classes in my high school for four years. and when i say that i still have trauma based on it, i still have traumais bad on it. it was very isolating. principal briscoe is a black woman, she went to a black college, she raised two black sons. there is no one on earth who can

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