In Traverse City, Michigan, a group of mostly white high school students hold a "private" Snapchat Slave Auction in which they "traded" their black classmates by name for money. One black student was told by a friend that she was initially "sold" for $100 before she was finally given away for free. Among the messages posted by students on the Snapchat site were "all blacks should die" and "let's start another Holocaust."
According to
The Washington Post, this incident led a local equity task force for the school district to propose a resolution condemning “racism, racial violence, hate speech, bigotry, discrimination and harassment.” It called for holding more “comprehensive” training for teachers, adding historically marginalized authors to school libraries and reviewing the district’s “curriculum and instruction [to] address gaps . . . from a social equity and diversity lens.”
However, the proposal quickly led to a major backlash from white parents that their kids are being taught Critical Race Theory, and they are now leading the charge to keep it from being passed. "Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging,’ all of those words sound great,” said Nicole Hooper, a 42-year-old mother of three. “But when you drill back and actually look at the meaning of the words . . . they are interlaced with critical race theory.”
Pretty powerful article on what school systems around the country are likely facing this fall. And remember, this proposal came in response to a Snapchat Slave Auction - but according to the white parents it was just an "isolated" incident (many minority students and parents interviewed in the article strongly disagree).
Link:
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2021/07/25/a-war-over-critical-race-theory-is-tearing-this-small-michigan-town-apart/