It was homecoming week at Polson High School in Montana, and students were asked to dress up for an event called “Color Wars.” Each grade was assigned a color to wear. The junior class got white. Some students printed “white power” on their shirts. Pictures from the ill-conceived event in September 2016 went viral on over social media. Even the New York Daily News covered it. “There were kids who said, ‘How could you possibly let kids walk around with white power shirts?’” said Anna Baldwin, an English teacher at Arlee High School, a neighboring school to Polson on the Flathead Indian […]
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