The employee at Mabel Rush Elementary School reportedly darkened her face with iodine and told fellow staff members that she wanted to look like Rosa Parks.
A staff member at an elementary school in Newberg, Oregon, showed up to work in Blackface last week in a highly controversial protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the school district said in a statement Monday.
"The administration of Newberg Public Schools condemns all expressions of racism," the school district said in a statement on Monday."It is important to remember how Blackface has been used to misrepresent Black communities and do harm. We acknowledge the violence this represents and the trauma it evokes regardless of intention."
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