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SCOOP: The government of King County, WA has a segregation problem.
According to new documents, King County Public Health held a series of racially-segregated diversity training sessions, teaching employees that they have "internalized racial oppressions [and] superiority."
Last year, the King County government gathered their homeless healthcare workers into racially-segregated sessions—called "race affinity caucuses"—to root out "White Supremacy Culture" and "decolonize their minds."pic.twitter.com/TswRkYkVCt
The trainers told white employees that they needed to deconstruct their "internalized racial superiority," "work through guilt, shame, & other barriers that hold white people back." Then they "remind[ed] white people that work needs to be done to dismantle racism every day."pic.twitter.com/1wFxVTabnW
The session for people of color instructed minorities to "[decolonize] your mind," "create an alternative power base," and then "encourage [their] White colleagues within the Network to work on their own internalized superiority."pic.twitter.com/Nv9MMOaWdP
In the past week, I have uncovered segregation in the King County Library System, King County Prosecutor's Office, and now King County Public Health. This practice—"separate but equal" training sessions—is doubtlessly widespread throughout county government.
The employees at King County Public Health are supposed to help provide healthcare to the homeless. Instead, leaders have sent them to racially-segregated political indoctrination sessions. This, needless to say, doesn't do anything for the homeless.
Unfortunately, the local media has been silent on these racially-segregated public institutions.
King County Councilmembers @reagandunn, @KathyLambert, and others must launch an investigation into this practice, which violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Enough is enough.
This makes me want to tweet #DecolonizeThis with a middle finger emoji, but I'm trying to contribute to a healthy nontoxic public square, so I'll simply note that the impulse occurred
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