Erin Godfrey, the study’s lead author, remarked on her team’s findings in an article in the Atlantic: “We cannot equivocate when it comes to preparing our children to face injustices.”33 Godfrey’s study confirms what Black, Brown, and Indigenous people have always known: “You cannot continue to oppress a consciously historical people.”34 Children of color attending schools that do not help them interpret the racist, sexist, Islamophobic, patriarchal, homophobic, transphobic, and xenophobic world in which they live is not only maintaining the status quo but also ensuring that Whiteness,
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