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My high school chemistry teacher was a burned-out veteran educator who spent inordinate amounts of valuable teaching time ridiculing the achievements of black people. He didn’t like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and he didn’t like sprinters, who were mostly black, and dismissively ridiculed their achievements by declaring they were born with natural advantages but could not win the ”thinking man’s” races.
Nearly 50 years ago, instead of teaching us how to balance equations, he said:…
