Justin Ward
1 min readFeb 24, 2020

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Why do you assume I advocate black kids go “to hellish public schools?” I was an education reporter in Austin during college and few years after. One of the things I covered was resegregation and the neglect of mostly black Johnston High. I’m currently working on a review of Charles Murray’s latest racist attack on education interventions designed to close gaps, like Head Start and Abecedarian.

If you want to call me racist, that’s fair. I like all white people am to some degree or another racist. It’s the result of 400 years of white supremacy. I don’t understand the hostility I’m getting from you for recognizing that and exploring it.

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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