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Nedra Rhone

Nedra Rhone: As battle wages over critical race theory, schools fail at teaching Reconstruction

As Georgia students gathered at the Capitol last Friday to protest legislation that would govern the way race is taught in schools, an interesting email hit my inbox.

The writer, whose identity I will conceal, was responding to one of my past columns on wealth gaps. I won't repeat his vitriol, but in summary, he suggested Black Americans were alone in their quest for civil rights.

Asian Americans, Native people and Jewish people are not "protesting that they are owed reparations" or "saying they've been oppressed or offended by statues," he wrote.

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