Notes on Racial Injustice in Education meeting
9/24/2020, 7-9 PM

-White Supremacy and anti-blackness lead for expentions and expulsions of black and prison students.
-Birth-to-Prison pipeline. Laws preventing slaves and then free slaves from learning to read creates a system of racial injustice.

We all have different perpectives on race. Assumptions: Naming race hurts the country.
-Pledge of Allegience that's supposed to be indivisable. It's been divided, causing a sense of trauma for children. We're all in this together, and we're all accountable for what our children will experience in the future. We're only going to move forward together.
-Not feeling racial disparity is a racial disparity because you're taking advantage of those in dispare.
-The data, process, and the outcome of what we're seeing needs to be transparent. See who'd experiencing the benefit and who'd not.
-Need to heal from the trauma of white supremecy. USE words that are discomfortable to white people because discomfort creates growth.

A principal's job is to hire good teachers and love the students.
-Take a moment to redefine assumptions about young, black people.
-Karen Anderson brought in MOVE: Men of Valar and Excellence to have men from the community to mentor 16 "trouble-maker" black boys. *Privilage is pervasive. Bias about race hender possibilities.

Implicit Bias Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
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LEAD: Listen, Empathize, Advocate, Dedicated to work

https://www.move-ment.org/