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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

When the Culture War Comes for Your Job

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Brittany Hogan worked in diversity and inclusion for the Rockwood School District for eight years. As public debate intensified over the way race is discussed in schools, and threats were made against her, Hogan eventually was pushed to resign.


Guest: Brittany Hogan, former director of educational equity and diversity for the Rockwood School District in St. Louis County.


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0:00.0

I wanted to know if Brittany Hogan had watched those videos.

0:07.7

Who pays your salary?

0:10.0

This is an unawful arrest.

0:14.0

I have a first amendment.

0:15.9

The ones from school board meetings all over the country.

0:19.6

Just because I do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school does not mean

0:27.6

that I'm a racist, damn it?

0:29.6

If you have materials that you're providing where it says if you were born a white male, you were born an oppressor, you were abusing our children.

0:35.6

It was too familiar for me to even... you were born an oppressor, you were abusing our children.

0:42.9

It was too familiar for me to even be comfortable watching that.

0:48.3

Brittany spent the last eight years working in a school district just outside St. Louis, Missouri.

0:51.2

So she's seen her own versions of these meetings.

0:54.7

When she reads about the vicious fights over what parents are calling critical race theory, she looks past the people at the microphones. She looks for the teachers,

1:01.1

administrators, the people on the receiving end of all this. Your heart breaks for them.

1:08.1

You know, how do you take care of others when you're struggling to take care of yourself? So I thought about that a lot, and so I limited some of my viewing

1:16.6

of what's been happening. Here's what Brittany knows better than most. These protesters,

1:27.0

they aren't just showing up to public meetings.

1:29.5

They're picking up their phones, tapping out messages on Facebook.

1:33.4

And over the last year, as Brittany led diversity efforts for the Rockwood School District,

1:38.9

she got to know them.

1:40.4

I spoke to someone who basically told me that my work was immoral and I was like, and it was

1:45.3

ungodly.

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