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Racism is ‘alive and well in Washougal, just like everywhere else’

City’s only Black high school teacher pushes district to fund equity programs

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Washougal High School teacher Charlotte Lartey holds a "'No' might make them angry, but it will make you free" sign at a Black Lives Matter march. (Contributed photo courtesy of Charlotte Lartey)

When Charlotte Lartey was 4 years old, she discovered her sister standing in a bathtub, screaming in pain after pouring bleach on her skin so that the other girls at school would stop calling her “ugly” and “evil.”

About eight years later, a boy who had already directed an ethnic slur toward Lartey’s brother, stabbed her in the chest with a needle and told her to die.

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