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[quote=Anonymous]The DEI programming was the book about indigenous knowledge written by a white lady who joined a tribe in her forties my kids school put into the curriculum. Richard Wright who wrote Black Boy and Native Son was what I read at school in the ‘90s pre-DEI, same with Mildred Taylor and Chinua Achebe and Zora Neale Hurston, The Bluest Eye and a book called Black Ice, a memoir about being the only black girl at a boarding school in the 1980s, as well as Sounder (fantastic movie, too) and Go Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin. We read the Education of Little Tree and did a whole project about how the writer was a Pretendian who had been in the Klan. We read Anne Frank and Night by Elie Wiesel. We read Othello so we could understand Desdemona by Toni Morrison (she said reading the play without knowing Othello would be silly) and we read slave narratives in history class. All this we read at my run of the mill nothing private christian school in a flyover state. Whatever lens that was, it wasn’t white, and it definitely seemed less white than what my kid read now. [/quote]

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