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Separate But Equal?
December 27, 2020
The following letter was published in this week’s issue of the Gazette.
To the editor:
Plessy and Ferguson? Meet Pugh and King.
2020 has been a landmark year in many unfortunate ways. A year ago, who would have thought that Croton on Hudson would have an official policy of segregated public meetings? The quickest way to bring a conversation to a screeching halt in Croton nowadays is to point out that the Croton Board of Trustees held an official meeting for “black community” residents on October 29 and a “Hispanic community” forum on November 5.
I understand that these meetings, while separate, were equal to the “public forum” on November 19, “held for the entire community.” But slapping woke labels on old practices don’t make them any less racist. What is next: water fountains labeled “BIPOC” and “non-BIPOC”? READ MORE HERE.
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