 For The Washington Post, George F. Will compared Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan's legacy and vision for America to that of race-based “equity.” Harlan was the one dissenting vote in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson which upheld "separate but equal" and opened the door for Jim Crow segregation. In his dissenting opinion, Justice Harlan stated, “Our Constitution is color-blind. ... The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.” Read the full article here.  For The Atlantic, Danzy Senna wrote an article serving both as a review and a firsthand account of encountering Robin DiAngelo’s Nice Racism and Courtney E. Martin’s Learning in Public at her son's private school. “Interracial worlds, friendships, marriages—Black and white lives inextricably linked, for good and for bad, with racism and with hope—are all but erased by Martin and DiAngelo, and with them the mixed children of these marriages, who are the fastest-growing demographic in the country.” Read the full article here.  For Persuasion, director of high school outreach at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Bonnie Snyder weighed in on the ongoing dilemma of neo-racism in education, and advocated for solutions through open discourse rather than legislative action. “Rather than banning disfavored ideas like CRT through coercive legislation, we should leave it to local school boards, with the input of concerned parents and citizens, to shape their curricula.” Read the full article here.  For the LA Times, Sara Cardine covered Orange County residents speaking out against California’s new ethnic studies curriculum. Many are concerned it enforces race essentialism and division in the classroom. Orange County’s Board of Education hosted a discussion panel on Tuesday, giving community members a chance to speak either for or against the new curriculum. “Linda Padilla-Smyth, mother of two biracial daughters, worried the curriculum would divide students by teaching them to cast white people as oppressors and people of color as victims. ‘I do not want my children to hate either side of their heritage,’ she said.” Read the full article here.  For the New York Post, university student and up-and-coming journalist Rikki Schlott reflected on her experience standing up for free speech and open inquiry at NYU. “Today’s students recoil at the first hint of contention and demand insulation from controversial ideas. But, in the process of bubble-wrapping themselves, they undermine the very purpose of their education: the exploration of self that is paramount to intellectual maturity.” Read the full article here. |
