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This week, a public high school in Wisconsin held separate Zoom meetings on “police brutality” for “white parents” and “parents of color.”
The Thursday call for parents of students at West High School in Madison was held to discuss issues such as the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of George Floyd last spring as well as “the murder of another young black female,” presumably referring to the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant as she was attempting to stab another teenage girl.
A Google document containing links to the meeting could be found Friday on the school’s website, under the “for families” tab.
The meeting in question, listed on the school calendar for Thursday, was titled “UPDATED ZOOM LINK: Affinity Space for Parents of Students of Color.” In parentheses, it stated the meeting was geared “to parents of students of color only.” Continue reading…
