Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then 'Everything Just Imploded.'

[elleng]

A Black superintendent’s email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm.

CENTREVILLE, Md. — When Andrea Kane sat down to write a letter to parents in her school district days after George Floyd’s death in 2020, images of the Black man pleading for his life under the knee of a white Minnesota police officer were haunting her. >>>

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((We have serious cultural problems in this country, being felt everywhere. Others have written about the issue. I am not optimistic.))

[Solly Mack]

1. Well, certainly a culture of racism and bigotry, for sure.

As exampled in the article in the OP. I read the entire article.

Any "culture" rooted in racism, that embraces racism, that needs racism to feel important, is a sick culture.

But that's just my nickel.

[elleng]

2. a good, sad nickel