Racial Justice Conversation ponders next steps
Racial Justice Conversation ponders next steps By Jessica Cohen PORT JERVIS - Ann Akers began her December Racial Justice Conversation group by telling a story about how an Iowa teacher demonstrated the effects of racism to her third-grade class. The day after Martin Luther King was assassinated, a student had asked for an explanation, so she conducted an experimental exercise. The children were told that those with blue eyes were “not smart” and “slower” and would have to sit in the back of the class and use cups rather than drink directly from the fountain. The next day the brown-ey...
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