To add insult to injury, the school district later issued a statement saying that the authors had misunderstood, that they were not barred from discussing systemic racism.

Imagine that, two distinguished writers with evident high command of the English language independently misunderstood the district's communication.

Seriously? We're supposed to believe that?

Not remotely credible.

The blatant racism on the part of district officials is, however, entirely credible.