Thread by @TheJLV

Those who know my work over the last decade and change know I’ve had my share of critiques of superintendents and chancellors.

What’s been different about @DOEChancellor is how he asks the hard systemic questions about racism and the actual status quo in NYC.

@DOEChancellor I don’t need the chancellor of the largest school district in the nation to be perfect, either.

I need someone who, when confronted with the most difficult questions of our time, actually wants to respond thoughtfully and with the fullest powers invested in them.

@DOEChancellor I get that, as a Black Dominican educator in Washington Heights, I have a purview that other visible educators and policymakers don’t.

But how else do we uproot inequity if not by looking at it directly, asking the questions, and having solid answers?

Where critics of @DOEChancellor fail is that they love saying there are other ways to fight inequity, but we’ve never seen them on the front lines for equity, only for their specific niche.

The ones on the front lines for the equity fight happen to agree with the chancellor.

@DOEChancellor You can’t just use the words “equity” and “racism” or tuck your corporate-style education reform into anti-racism.

You need to use your position to stand with those who’ve been most disenfranchised by our education system.

Because it’s right, even when it’s not popular.

@DOEChancellor Lastly, the critiques of Carranza only elucidate that folks think taking him down means they can stop the anti-racism movement burgeoning in a city with majority students of color in our public schools.

Nah, fam. We got good work to do. For all of us.