Sherrilyn Ifil, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) outlines in an article in Time that although the perpetrators of mass school shootings have been almost
exclusively white, there’s little doubt that arming teachers will lead
disproportionately to the killing — by teachers — of children of color.
"For the sake of other children on the verge of being pushed away, this moment should be a reckoning to think long and hard about what really works to help them, to keep all children safe. But to invest instead, as our president has insisted, in turning those teachers into armed guards patrolling our classrooms would be the final act of hostility and abandonment of our nation’s children. And we will know — from the outset — that the children who will be the foremost victims of this effort will be children of color."
http://time.com/5186040/sherrilyn-ifill-black-children-classroom/
