How the “Woke” Classroom Is Teaching White Shame and Black Futility

In The Atlantic, an African-American candidate for an Illinois local district School Board named Ndona Muboyayi shared her experience of having her kids come home from school after being taught that “all white people are privileged and part of a system of white supremacy.” At the same time, her black kids were also learning that the “system” was and would always be against them:

“The narrative is, ‘You can’t get ahead.’ Of course I want my children to know about slavery and Jim Crow. But I want it to be balanced out with the rest of the truth. They’re not taught about Black people who accomplished things in spite of white supremacy.”

Teaching white kids to be ashamed of themselves because of their privilege and teaching black kids that the system is and always will be rigged against them is a disservice to both.