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Jennifer Jenkins quoted in an report by Elisha Fieldstadt at NBC News. Florida school board member who supports masks says people told her to 'beg for mercy'

When I was a teen my mother taught first grade at a school in Charlotte< NC that had a wonderful principal.  Once my mother, me, my younger brother and the principal went  on a short vacation to the beach.  It was probably the late summer of 1970. Anyhow Charlotte schools were in the middle of an extrodinarliy contentious school desegregation decision. 

We dropped the principal off at her home. I never visited the house, but it was older and not very visable from the road. There was a mailbox by the driveway. And I remember a very large plum tree in the yard. I remember my mother mentioned that she could not use the mailbox to get her mail. 

I thought of that principal when I heard Jenkins speak and searched for her obituary online. I cried.

The principal went to a different school, the school that had once been the poorest in the city and became the school everyone wanted their children to go to. When she retired she was given the key to the city . She lived to be almost 100 and it is plain she was beloved my many, many.

What if there were a bomb that day when she opened the mailbox!

How does a racist address systemic racism? He simply insists that racism no longer exists. Last week, I listened to an interview with racist R.R. Reno, author of Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West Reno would have you believe that racism is a thing of the past, that Fascism disappeared in 1945, that nationalism is passé. R.R. is an über conservative…