Episode 30: Inventing A White Race

Political Junkie Podcast · Jul 9, 2023 · 40m

We begin this episode with a June, 2021 school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia, where a mob of angry white parents had taken over the room. They demanded that the district stop using tax dollars to make curricular and structural interventions about race and racism. They also raised the flag of “parents’ rights,” a pandemic-born political call to arms that insisted on their right as parents to make decisions about what their children learned about the nation’s racial past and present.

Along with the rest of the state, Loudoun County had mounted massive resistance to desegregation in…