By Selwyn Duke

“You are quoted twice in the last eight months” in media, read the correspondence. “Could you tell me how you racially self-identify or point me to a citation on your identity?”

Could you believe that the above was from 1938 and translated from German? Perhaps you might — but the question actually was sent to a mother who attracted authorities’ attention recently by fighting to reopen Los Angeles’s schools.

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