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Superintendent Cartwright Asserts “I Don’t Hire Someone Just Because They’re Black”

 Superintendent Cartwright defends her purge of Black administrators by asserting that she doesn’t hire someone just because they’re Black. If this is her philosophy, are we to assume that the only people she found qualified to fill her administrative positions were white? This assertion not only is disingenuous but represents  a white supremacist’s ideology to the extreme. […]

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Racist ‘Replacement’ Rhetoric is Deadly and Republicans Must Stop Using It

     That should cause some serious reflection among Republicans who are trying to build power with their own versions of racist “replacement” rhetoric. Replacement rhetoric is meant to tap into a very old fear: that the survival and dominance of White Americans is threatened by others—whether by the freedom and empowerment of Black people or immigration by people of color. […]