Charles M. Blow: How our classrooms became battle grounds

Cleaning up America’s racial history sold as an effort to protect innocent white children from distress.

(Evan Jenkins | The New York Times) Portraits of Black historical figures hang on the walls of a classroom in Crawfordsville, Ind., April 5, 2019. "In a way, America's classrooms have always been auxiliary battlegrounds for the country's larger culture wars," writes New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow.

Charles M. Blow: How our classrooms became battle grounds

Cleaning up America’s racial history sold as an effort to protect innocent white children from distress.

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