Redondo school board candidate responds to race-tinged attack
A little over a week before the Redondo Beach Unified School District school board election, Kimberlee Isaacs found a message in her Facebook inbox. A friend had sent her a photo of a two-sided flyer. Both sides featured a photo of her face, the one on the yard signs and door hangers she’d been handing out as part of her campaign to be the first ever Black woman on the board. In the photo, she wears pink lipstick and gold hoop earrings and looks the parts she plays: businesswoman, accountant, wife, mom. A red circle had been digitally added to the photo, and through it, a line across Isaacs’ face. Is this who Redondo Beach wants on their school board? the flyer said. Don’t vote for Kimberlee Isaacs. The flyer displayed screenshots of posts Isaacs had made on social media, dating back to 2017. One was a quote she’d posted to Facebook after being told by a white person to “leave this country,” the only country that four generations of her family had ever known and that both of her grandfathers went to war to defend. “Racism is so American,” the quote said, “that when we protest racism the average American assumes we’re protesting America.” Another was a video of three of Isaacs’…
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