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White Folks Got's Feelings Too

Via Joanne Jacobs:

Two Vero Beach High School students are in counseling to deal with the trauma they suffered when their teacher read a racial slur used by a black character in an award-winning novel, A Land Remembered, that depicts the rise of a Cracker family over three generations. The parents have contacted a civil rights lawyer.

I wondered why an 11th grade teacher is reading aloud in class. Can't the students read for themselves?

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