Learning from our history of racial injustice | READER COMMENTARY

I so appreciate the brief letter to the editor in The Baltimore Sun contradicting Dr. Ben Carson’s opinion on the subject of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in school curriculum (“Achieving fairness requires learning about DEI, CRT,” June 18). The author mentions many examples of discrimination throughout the history of our country that were shocking to me when I began to wake up to this race-based reality. Did we learn in school about Black citizens being excluded from VA loans and other GI benefits? Or even about red-lining in Baltimore? The writer touches on Jim Crow laws which I’m just beginning to understand at my age.

Our only hope is our children, and my college-graduate grandchild assures me that their classes in a Baltimore County high school have opened their eyes to some of these injustices I never learned about.

— Marilyn Carlisle, Baltimore

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