There are many students who want to learn the unvarnished truth about how race, racism, and violence have suffused History. They want to learn how to change the broken world their elders are leaving them. They are braver than our "leaders." And they deserve our best as teachers.
I would guess that this is a majority of students, to be honest. The mythical entitled "snowflake" hasn't been part of my experience. Not every student is as far along in their journey, but for the most part they have the intellectual courage and desire to get there.
The real "snowflakes" are the white conservatives who believe that even talking about structural racism is a mortal threat to their hegemony. They're afraid of everything, and letting their fear stoke their anger. But their hegemony is crumbling--they know it and we know it.
And never underestimate the desire of students to learn about something that freaks out the old rich white people.
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