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Two School Officials Resign Over Anti-White Racist Texts: ‘I Am Being Targeted As A Latina Gender Studies Professor’

“I am being targeted as a Latina gender studies professor who teaches about racism, patriarchy, and oppression."

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Two School Officials Resign Over Anti-White Racist Texts: ‘I Am Being Targeted As A Latina Gender Studies Professor’
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Two Boston public school officials have resigned over text messages they sent to each other in October exposing feelings of anti-white racism.

Boston School Committee member Lorna Rivera, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, resigned Friday over her racist messages. 

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