My prepared remarks for the #Southlake @Carrollisd school board meeting tonight: (a thread)
@Carrollisd I won’t waste my brief time sharing all of the painful memories I experienced as a young person of color in this school district.
@Carrollisd You have made it abundantly clear that your interests are not in protecting marginalized students and families here (as evidenced by this in-person board meeting during a global pandemic disproportionately harming communities of color).
@Carrollisd Your priority is the comfort of the White opposition.
@Carrollisd Since your bottom line seems to be, well - the bottom line, I'll focus on what you do seem to care about.
@Carrollisd In your refusal to pass the Cultural Competency Action Plan, you are not just condoning and perpetuating the traumatization of your underrepresented Black, Brown, and LGBTQ students,
@Carrollisd you are also putting their overprivileged White classmates at a terrible disadvantage and limiting their potential to thrive.
@Carrollisd While you are fighting to protect an antiquated tradition, the world outside the bubble is changing. The world that one day your White students will grow up and have to participate in.
@Carrollisd Nike, Apple, Netflix, Gucci - businesses and corporations everywhere are making public commitments to do better, advance racial justice, and say unequivocally that Black Lives Matter.
@Carrollisd Someday... when prestigious corporations start deciding not to build their headquarters in Southlake,
@Carrollisd or successful families of color choose to live elsewhere,
@Carrollisd or the White students who you opted not to teach about microaggressions start losing their jobs because they were never held accountable for them,
@Carrollisd Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
@Carrollisd This isn’t a request. This is a courtesy- a heads up.
@Carrollisd You can either pass the CCAP and start the hard, but rewarding process of unlearning and transformation, which will truly benefit *all* students…
@Carrollisd or you can be irrelevant while the rest of the world moves forward.
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