92. CharcoalBeing & BrownLocal - Racism in Massachusetts Schools in 2022

Path of a Green Witch Podcast

This was obviously done intentionally. Systemic racism is super annoying but when you add the fact that Americans are pretty much forced to send our children to school to face this racism you realize just how cruel and ridiculous our racist system is.

I am certain that I was treated terribly by Massachusetts Department of Children and Families because I was a young, Black single mom who had the audacity to homeschool my own children. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families preferred to see my children living with documented abusers than to allow me to peacefully homeschool them. But that was ten years ago.

Fast forward to 2022. Now my son goes to a public school in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and he is being subjected to various forms of racism.

After I recorded this episode I had the opportunity to address this matter with school officials. I was extremely annoyed at the initial response! Ultimately the matter was handled sort of appropriately but initially the person I spoke to attempted to defend the person in charge of the passwords. That was concerning, annoying, and infuriating!

If you're in a position of power and someone comes to you with a complaint don't attempt to downplay the situation or defend something that is blatantly offensive. Just because you have known someone for decades and they have always been nice to you doesn't mean they aren't a terrible person.

The thing that was most annoying was the fact that a white person was trying to defend another white person's racist behavior. There's nothing more annoying to me than a white person trying to prove that there's no racism because they never experienced or witnessed racism. Do I even need to explain why that is completely asinine?

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