Chess Pieces — White-BlackBy Selwyn Duke

That’s “not one of the black classes,” the mother quoted her daughter’s school principal as saying after she requested a specific teacher for her girl. That mother, Kila Posey, then described her reaction: “First, it was just disbelief that I was having this conversation in 2020 with a person that looks just like me — a black woman. It’s segregating classrooms.”

“You cannot segregate classrooms,” she continued. “You can’t do it.”

Apparently you can, though, and the principal in question — Sharyn Briscoe of Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta — isn’t even the first to do it in recent times.

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