Likes: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/...ing/468862002/Shortly after the training started at 9 a.m., Smith answered a question one of three panelists posed to the group of several dozen participants. In doing so, she violated a Racial Equity Institute policy prohibiting alumni of the training from participating and thereby set in motion the chain of events that ended in her arrest.
Carol Rogoff Hallstrom, a fellow alumna of the training and a veteran of the civil rights movement, reached over the person sitting between her and Smith and told Smith that she wasn’t allowed to speak out, per policy. Smith told Hallstrom she should be allowed to speak.
“There’s no way, according to systemic racism theory, that any white woman should be telling a woman of color what she should and shouldn’t be saying. That’s just not OK,” Smith said.
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