‘We don’t even think about race.’

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

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Debates over critical race theory take over a town in Michigan. Plus, why breakthrough coronavirus infections do not mean that our vaccines aren’t working.

Traverse City, Mich., is a microcosm of the critical race theory debates taking over school systems across the country. The debates in the town came after the school board decided to fast-track an equity resolution, after students held a fake slave auction over Snapchat. Reporter Hannah Natanson went to Traverse City to understand what White parents think of the resolution and racism in the town, as well as how students feel.

Within the past few weeks, positive coronavirus test results have been delivered to some high-profile fully vaccinated people: New York Yankees players, Olympic gymnast alternates and state lawmakers from Texas. Ben Guarino reports on why such breakthrough infections are to be expected — and why they don’t imply that vaccines are widely failing.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu O'Rourer-Nicco with the Washington Post.
0:11.0	Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me the Post.
0:13.0	This is Peter J. Emerson from the Washington Post.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Thursday, July 29th.
0:22.0	Today, critical race theory debated.
0:27.0	We don't even, not even for a second, think about race.
0:31.0	Plus, breakthrough infections.
0:34.0	Trevor Sidney Michigan is one of several places in the country where white parents are fighting against racial equity education.
0:44.0	The problem is we are one human race.
0:48.0	These parents say they don't want their kids being taught to be ashamed of their race or their country.
0:53.0	We are not to look at each other and what you guys are doing, you are actually performing and controlling these children to actually take a look at the skin color.
1:02.0	It's not about the race color. It's not about the culture. It's not about that.
1:08.0	The interesting thing to me about Trevor Sidney was right before this battle came to that town.
1:17.0	They had an undeniably racist incident on Snapchat where a group of mostly white students pretended to trade their black classmates into slavery.
1:28.0	This happened in April. These kids made a chat thread and titled it slave trade.
1:33.0	Hannah Naitensen is an education reporter with the post.
1:36.0	I spoke to a student who was targeted, whose name is Navea Borden and she is 16 years old and she is biracial.
1:44.0	I know how much I was sold for. More wasn't $100 and in the end I was given a weight of for free.
1:51.0	Hannah saw screenshots of messages in this thread. One said, quote, all blacks should die.
1:58.0	Another said, let's start another Holocaust.
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