Recently the Davis School District in Utah received a Justice Department report talking about widespread racism in the schools and how administrators and teachers routinely ignored or downplayed when students reported racist harassment. The report stated that, “Many Black students said the harassment was so pervasive and happened so often in front of adults that they concluded school employees condoned the behavior and believed reporting it further would be futile.”

I reached out to Grace Soelberg, one of my friends on Twitter who is Black and grew up in the Davis School District.  I wondered what her experience was like and I also asked about her perspective as a newly graduated history major from BYU.