Ihad faith in MNPS.

Not because current leadership has given me much reason to believe they will be the ones to finally close the yawning educational gulf that isolates poor Black kids on islands of poverty and despair, but because, generally speaking, I have faith in humanity. I have faith that, even when we mistakenly place individual needs before the good of the whole, the illumination of issues can open eyes anew and restore our commitment to the greater good.

After all, MNPS’s struggle to educate the most marginalized isn’t specific to Superintendent Adrienne Battle’s tenure, or even to this generation. It’s America’s age-old crisis, born of anti-Blackness and a desire to ensure that, post-emancipation, Black folks in this country were never afforded upward mobility. Minus whips and

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