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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The announcement doesn't say anything about white people not being invited (unless I missed it?).  It says the talks plan on focusing on a certain group.  Anybody is welcome to come and participate as long as they are on topic. [/quote]

Correct, it doesn't. [/quote]

It does. It doesn’t say “whites are NOT invited”, but it says they are excited to invite “all families of children who identify as black.” If your child doesn’t identify as Black, you are not invited. [/quote]

I honestly don't view this as anything different than having such an email for any other specialty group from parents of LGBTQ+ kids to parents of kids with special needs. Literally just don't care.[/quote]

Most of the time those aren’t phrased in an exclusionary way, though.

Assuming this is legal, people are free to issue exclusionary invitations. But what they aren’t free to do is control other people’s reactions to being excluded, or be surprised when people react badly. [/quote]

Email was rewritten in an earlier comment replacing Black with LGBTQ+ and it reads perfectly fine[/quote]

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