Systemic oppression and education: Williston High School and the Massacre of 1898

Systemic oppression and education: Williston High School and the Massacre of 1898

(Gracie Davis/The Seahawk) If you want to cripple a community, attack its schools. Serving as pillars of the community and a place of hope and safety for young people, harming schools and academics causes a shockwave of negative repercussions, such as keeping people in poverty and disenfranchised. Educational opportunities have been historically withheld and attacked in order to oppress certain groups, even here in Wilmington, N.C.  But first, w…