By Nancy Gutierrez and Roberto Padilla New York Daily News | Mar 10, 2021 at 5:00 AM Home grown. (AP) “Do you. Be you.” So advised outgoing NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to Meisha Ross Porter as she was named incoming chancellor of the nation’s largest public school district on Feb. 26. But are we, as a city and nation, ready for Porter, a Black woman and lifelong New Yorker, to do that? Will we allow her to bring her full self to the table? We fear that too many are not ready.
