"The Missouri Senate continues debating a bill to limit how race and history are taught in Missouri schools. This mirrors moves in several local districts throughout the state that suggest that the potential harm of white guilt is more concerning than the actual harms of racism. These and similar measures elsewhere, including the College Board’s gutting of the advanced-placement Black history course, tell teachers, citizens and our society to not look, to not bear witness to the harms of racism in this country. This war against truth, especially against the truth of racial brutality, past and present, only promises to perpetuate injustice."
Dr. Kelly Harris, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Surgery in Public Health Sciences. Dr. Harris is an alum and adjunct for the Department of Education.
Read her article for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch here.
