Alert Reel: Student Assigned ‘Only White People Can Be Racist’ Essay
Evidence of Harm in Colorado Schools
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In this student testimony, a high schooler shares her troubling classroom experience with race-based instruction. During her sophomore year, she was assigned an essay titled “Only white people can be racist,” and told that people of color cannot be. She explains how this made her feel targeted and silenced, especially as a white student receiving different assignments from her peers. Her story reflects growing concerns about ideological curricula replacing open discourse and equality in the classroom.
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