I was lucky enough to take a 2 or 3 classes with Derrick Bell before he passed. His core observation was that racial progress only ever happens when it aligns with the interests of white people.

I’ve been watching a bunch of the white parents in my cohort pulling their kids out of public schools in favor of privates. The Seattle public schools are facing budget shortfalls.

The white parents pulling their kids are the people with money and time to be advocates in favor of schools. Turns out.

@ml 100%

“racial progress only ever happens when it aligns with the interests of white people.”

@HeyEddie it’s good that we, as a nation, have worked so hard to ensure our interests converge and align.

/s

@ml I really hope to not be one of those parents as S gets to that age.

@alpha it’s pretty neat that schools are one of the things that both our state and federal governments have utterly and completely fucked up. And Seattle actually has pretty good schools!