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Trump's anti-diversity crusade borrows from Chicago’s past

First publishedAug 17, 11:00 UTC
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<p>I spent my childhood on 74th Street and South Shore Drive, watching how Chicago negotiates the boundaries of who belongs. Long before I analyzed race and public policy for a living, I was a Hyde Park Academy graduate in the South Side legislative district Barack Obama once represented.

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<p>I spent my childhood on 74th Street and South Shore Drive, watching how Chicago negotiates the boundaries of who belongs. Long before I analyzed race and public policy for a living, I was a Hyde Park Academy graduate in the South Side legislative district Barack Obama once represented. I learned early that “merit” is not neutral when the people in power define the measure, set the threshold and decide whose qualifications are presumed credible.</p><p>That lesson has felt familiar all summer.</p><p>In June, Chicago Public Schools CEO and Supt. Macquline King <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/06/10/what-to-know-as-cps-ceo-macquline-king-prepares-to-testify-before-congress-under-subpoena" >testified before a Republican-led House committee</a> in Washington, D.C., after being subpoenaed alongside superintendents from San Francisco and Virginia.

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<p>I spent my childhood on 74th Street and South Shore Drive, watching how Chicago negotiates the boundaries of who belongs. Long before I analyzed race and public policy for a living, I was a Hyde Park Academy graduate in the South Side legislative district Barack Obama once represented.
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