chris thinnes

The system of white supremacy does not care about your intentions, it does not care if you do or do not hold hatred for people of color in your heart—it only cares that you participate in the system.

Our job is not to prepare students for something, our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.

When we talk about an academic achievement gap in this country, we must do so in the context of an opportunity gap, which has said to black and brown children that they are not worthy of accessing the same quality of education as their white peers. We must talk about it in the context of implicit (and explicit) bias that educators and assessment…