Currently, less than 2 percent of teachers are Black men; White men and women make up more than 80 percent of the teaching force.27 Teacher retention is also at an all-time low.28 Many White teachers are by-products of White flight and White rage. They have grown up living and learning in communities created by their grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ hate and fear of darkness. Many of these teachers are unaware of how their lily-White communities were established in and have upheld Whiteness. This lack of awareness, of course, often leads them to measure their communities against the urban
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