How Teachers Unintentionally Teach White Supremacy

As the new school year looms, and I read about how authoritarian governors like Arkansas’ <a href="https://thegrio.com/2023/08/17/arkansas-gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-under-fire-for-pulling-ap-african-american-studies/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Huckabee Sanders </a>and Florida’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/24/florida-desantis-black-history-education-00107859" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ron DeSantis</a> are causing grievous harm to students and education by banning African American history and all discussions about race from their states’ classrooms, I am grateful that Wisconsin has, at least for now, a governor who supports educators like me, who want to speak the truth to students about America’s past and ongoing war on Black and Brown people. Yet, clearly, not all White educators here want to speak that truth, because they either truly don’t believe it themselves, are too fragile to admit that they have implicit racial biases that harm their students, or they think their love for their students transcends any deeply laden racist tendencies. <a href="https://readcultured.com/how-teachers-unintentionally-teach-white-supremacy-faf5eb3a08ed">Read More</a>