@marwilliamson sorry, I don’t tweet often and I messed up the tweet thread. Please see my profile for several follow up tweets. My point is, systemic racism starts at birth and is then reinforced by an under-funded education system. How do I convince my racist parents of this?
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Replying to @Shawn_Phelps
1/ You’re right. If a child can’t read by the age of eight then the chances of high school graduation are drastically diminished and the chances of incarceration greatly increased. That’s why we need to stop funding public schools primarily on property taxes.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @Shawn_Phelps
2/ Millions of American children live with chronic trauma. 13 million hungry even before the pandemic. PTSD just living in their neighborhoods. “Trauma rooms” common in public schools. We need Dept of Children & Youth to harness & coordinate the expertise needed to change this.
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3/ Don’t worry about your parents; they get to vote however they want. Just work as hard as you can to elect people who see things your way. Like these: progressivecandidatesummit.c…
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Replying to @marwilliamson @Shawn_Phelps
We live in a free information society (at least as free as progressive liberals allow it to be). You would rather ppl be force-fed ideologies. They don't offer anything in school that helps them in their lives. Kids graduate and can't even build chair, sew or change their car oil