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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

CASABLANCA, Morocco — I grew up with a Black father of Puerto Rican and Caribbean ancestry and a white mother, in an overwhelmingly white area of Western New York. If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. I am used to standing out.

Ancestry 101
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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

The Hechinger Report

But some researchers fear this gene screening work could be misapplied and used to further racist or eugenic thinking, even though race is a social, not a genetic, classification. There is also an enormous shortcoming in the datasets used for this research: Virtually all are built with DNA from people of European ancestry.