View Comments In December 2020, an African American mother — desperate for her son, a high school senior, to graduate and go off to college — was forced into court to defend him. The young man, so close to achieving his mom’s dream, suddenly found his life turned upside down and his future threatened. William Clark, a senior at Democracy Prep in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a Black mother and a deceased white father. He is, according to his court filing, generally regarded as a white person by his classmates because of his lighter skin, blonde hair and green eyes. Last fall, Clark’s school began using “critical race theory” curriculum in its mandatory Sociology of Change class. The teacher and lawsuit defendant, Kathryn Bass, “required Clark and his fellow students to reveal and make professions about their gender, sex, religious and racial identities, and subjected those professions to public interrogation, scrutiny and derogatory labeling …”