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Disclaimer:
This website is named after the high school course, Citizenship and Social Justice, that Seattle Public Schools unsuccessfully tried to extinguish stemming from the complaints of one white family opposed to study of race and racism.
However, the website is NOT connected to this course nor intended for student use.
Dedicated to social justice and civic engagement, it is the personal website of educator and writer Jon Greenberg.
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White people should be more afraid of other whites than they are of people of color
Over 150 LGBTQ candidates claim victory in midterm elections
After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: ‘This Is Our Lane’
Opinion | Thousand Oaks shooter highlights how white privilege repeatedly leads to carnage
“Privilege is when, in a two-week span, white men kill 11 Jews in Pennsylvania, two black people in Kentucky grocery store, two women in a Florida yoga studio and 12 people in a California bar, yet no one calls to ban, deport, or profile white men — or asks, “Where were they radicalized?”
Imagine, for a moment, if the suspects were from a minority demographic like Muslims or immigrants. We would probably send in the military, and many people would demand the minority demographic hold their own members accountable. Does this happen when the suspects are white men?”
Decolonizing Thanksgiving: A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools
San Francisco to clear all marijuana misdemeanour convictions dating to 1975