On Juneteenth, when we commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in 1865, I’d like to remind Sacramento City Unified School District administrators of how profoundly Black children feel the pain and trauma of racial slurs hurled at them by other children they serve.
They are not immune to experiencing humiliation, fear, anxiety, anger, isolation, powerlessness, and a loss of belonging. They also feel poison darts of doubt that cause them to question whether they are good enough.
One Black child, a 14-year-old girl at Leonardo da Vinci TK-8 School, was called the N-word by classmates on June 8 and then left to stew all day in a heartsick state of mind, her mother said at Thursday’s SCUSD board meeting…