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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op again. This thread sort of took a turn...systemic and institutional racism in the US is a problem, and it affects all marginalized populations. It needs to be addressed for sure, and we all need to vote to put decent human beings in public offices, so policies can change for the better - less discrimination, less violence, less poverty.
However, I started this post because I was seeing COVID-induced anti-Asian hate crimes, my white American husband was very worried that our half Asian children might be subjected to this kind of hate and aggression. What can we do to protect them? What can we do to prepare to deal with issues, if/when they come up? We've had a very bad experience in the past, and we don't want to make the same mistake again meaning, wasting a bunch of time and our emotional energy dancing around with the school administration and teachers to not hurt these ignorant, racist white perpetrators' feelings. One example of the dance - one kid thought our son was black and used the slur for black people, told him to go back to his country, go back to Africa. My son called him an idiot, he wasn't from Africa, Africa isn't a country. Asst. Principal wanted my son to apologize to the kid for calling him an idiot. We said hell no, have that other kid apologize to him for using the slur - they said, well, he didn't "mean it" plus your son is not black, so what's the big deal? Ugh. Makes my blood boil just remembering that day.

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Sorry to hear this. It’s the reality in America no matter where you go. Maybe less blatant here but still present.

I’ve got your back and know many others do too. Ignore those who will pressure you to be “reasonable” or who try to minimize things. I’m not sure how FCPS will handle things, they are somewhat progressive but many white people as evidenced here have no knowledge of their bias and blind spots. FCPS fairly clumsily handled the George Floyd and BLM movement amount students. This is typically a white liberal area and so they’ll acknowledge and talk about race up until it starts being uncomfortable or inconvenient. [/quote]

To be fair to FCPS, it has handled Trump era politics and hate speech remarkably well considering the diversity of the community and out probity to all thing Trump.  FCPS *didn’t* handle the George Floyd death and BLM movement because the kids were all home, maybe in distance learning, but giving the smashing success /s of the rollout, probably not. It wasn’t on their radar. They were too busy mangling the pandemic response. [/quote]

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