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threat definition: a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.

I don’t know that I’ve seen any threat to date. Saying something “wicked is coming for you next“ arguably is not considered a threat as it was in context to a superintendent saying sexual orientation and skin color affect who gets to go to school first after remote learning. which many would debate was/is unconstitutional. https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-school-be-antiracist-a-new-superintendent-in-evanston-ill-has-a-plan-11601982001

What was the subject line of that email posted with the ‘wicked’ threat ? “Asian discrimination at district 65.” Foiagras posted a recent Supreme Court article from a case brought by Asian Americans against Harvard for discrimination that cited lots about district 65. It could today be argued/debated that that parent was perhaps correct, and that Asian Americans (and maybe other demographics) are and were being discriminated against. And that district65 is/was wrong. Evanston now posted the email reports previously can’t find the link

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Who are you, anonymous, to judge what is and is not a threat? You're not even willing to use your real name to comment!

You absolutely wrong that “wicked is coming for you next“ is not a threat. Ask people around you how they would feel if they received that email.

This has nothing to do with affirmative action, so stop talking about it. I've banned you many times from this blog for making everything about some national political issue. I will do it again. Please stop. You are the reason I've had to close comment sections after a few days.

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So these are Government officials (some getting paid lots of money) and not private citizens. Without you posting the supreme court d65 affirmative action documents we would have likely never seen it. Those documents mention racial based affinity groups many times which were promoted in the PTA blasts and an evanston new council member is openly apart of today (Next Steps).

Asian americans not getting into harvard in favor of whites, and blacks being let into school first as it relates to the pandemic of racism (according to d65) are at least someone casually related, as they are both about discrimination and one uses evanston schools as example to make the case at a federal level.

similarly like with equity- but indirectly related -are repatriations which are now being paid out and currently going viral as a model for the whole country -in every publication you see they say it started locally in Evanston and is now national model. Couldn't equity be argued to be the same as the board instituted equity at d65 I believe around 2014? How many other school districts in the country were doing this at that time?

I don't understand how evanston can lead and when its all good its all we hear is about the innovation for decades. Well now Evanston maybe contributed to the decline, well lets just deflect once it goes bad and we can't talk about it and if you disagree with anything well you just get arrested cancelled banned or whatever. I'm sorry you feel threatened by people who are against equity (and truly for all people), and that being sent recent court decisions showing different programs in the name of equity prove discrimination is/was happening, and pointing it evanston schools districts link makes some not welcome. Signing off

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