This episode isn't about how teachers should respond when their students make clocks. It's about the fact that racism is still part of life in the United States. Many Americans like to think of themselves as belonging to a post-racial society. But we don't.
We're still struggling with racism, including institutionalized racism. And that means against Muslim Americans, too.
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