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The New Hanover Board of Education voted to temporarily suspend the antiracism book "STAMPED" 4 to 3 until they review the policy. The book will remain in the school library. Sixty years after the March On Washington, banning antiracism books is a national political agenda to oppress Black/Brown children in the school system.
It was challenging for the African Americans to sit through the hearing and listen to Katie Gates (the parent who filed the complaint) and the four members who supported the ban. Gates expressed that there is no systemic racism in America. She argued further that there should be another perspective in the book. This statement is implicitly biased when the American history books have only one view, which virtually has very little or no Black History.
The hearing had an impact on the mental health of African Americans that were present. The decision of the New Hanover County Board of Education has divided the community, religiously and socially.
We are confused about how a national nonfiction antiracism best-seller can become educationally unsuitable for the New Hanover County school system.
The decision on September 1st has established a new chapter of racism in New Hanover County for the history books.
The Black Caucus would like to thank all those who stood in solitary with us.
The table of brotherhood cannot be broken.
We encourage all to continue to write to the
New Hanover Board of Education
For those who would like a copy of the antiracism "STAMPED."
Please call 1-888-353-VOTE while supplies last.
In the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.."
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