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[quote=Anonymous]The book written by the white woman about her journey to indigenous knowledge was the DEI pick. Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Go Tell it On the Mountain (Baldwin) and Chinua Achebe were all books I read in my run of the mill private school in flyover country in the Pre-DEI 1990s. We read Othello and then Desdemona, the way Toni Morrison recommended. We read and watched Sounder (oh, that movie) and Mildred Taylor whose family experienced the Great Migration. We read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and the Joy Luck Club. We read Night, the Diary of Ann Frank, Number the Stars and slave testimonials in US history. We did a project on the Education of Little Tree when it was revealed that the man who wrote was just another white person pretending to be Native American (once upon a time it wasn’t just white women who did that, it was men, too). It seemed very normal, yes, this rich tapestry of opinions and experiences, but it didn’t seem very “white.” I don’t like DEI because it’s shallow not because I am holding onto some Euro-supremacy. I am not a huge fan of Richard Wright’s Marxism (by the end of his life neither was he) or how he treated Zora Neale (he apologized), but Black Boy is a gut-wrenching account about growing up black in the Jim Crow South that stays with you far longer than one of these HR lectures we put our kids through.

*** I regret the snide personal remarks I made about who might have friends, etc. I apologize. It was unnecessarily pugilistic.
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