Some say the current racial and political climate contributes to the problem. They have “heightened the othering of people of color,” says Dr. Marybeth Gasman, director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. “I think there are Whites who consider spaces theirs and are emboldened to call the police or report people who they don’t think belong in these spaces. This is how White supremacy works. It assumes that Whites belong and are innocent and people of color do not belong and are guilty.”…

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