Posted on 07/07/2020 5:15:25 AM PDT by shortstop
Whose job is it to explain to my children that their white skin makes them bad?
Is that me?
Or do I leave it to the evening news, the NFL, Nike, the Democratic Party and the college professors?
Who is to teach white children how to deal with and submit to the shame into which they were born? If the sins of the fathers are to be visited upon the heads of the children, how do you get white kids woke to the inescapable burden of lifelong guilt they bear by virtue of their skin color?
How do you keep them from noticing that “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t say anything about their lives? How do you condition them to the ubiquitous antagonism toward their race in the popular culture of politicians, entertainers and corporate ad campaigns?
How do you get them to grasp that questions of concern arising from their skin color are racism, while similar questions of concern arising from the skin color of others are heroism? If it is bold to question the disrespectful treatment of blacks, why is it bigotry to question the disrespectful treatment of whites?
Kids ask questions like that. They believe it is honest inquiry. They can’t make sense of the nonsensical. They haven’t yet learned how to hide in fear for their jobs, or from the social media witch hunts, or the clustered scolds of the progressive workplace.
They still think they can think, and say, whatever they want.
How do we teach them not to do that, to avoid stigma and even violence in school, and ostracism in society?
How do we teach them to be white in a world that doesn’t like white?
That’s the new normal, and will likely be the escalating reality of their lives. Are we to teach them to make peace with that, to submit to it, to accept a cultural subservience in which their heritage, history and color are embarrassments?
Are they the first generation of four centuries of payback? Must they rabidly join in the denunciation of their own heritage to find a place in progressive America?
Are they to live in a world in which America traded one brand of racial bigotry for another? Is the American promise of equality to be paid in an equality of evil and prejudice, instead of an equality of rights and brotherhood?
These are real questions, and they are being asked in millions of households across the country. They are playing out in the psyches of children besmirched by the accident of birth. Certainly their discomfiture may be a faint echo of that known by generations of black children, but are we now of the mind that two wrongs make a right, that you settle old wrongs by committing new ones?
To lift black children up, must you tear white children down?
And do we live in a society where asking that question is cause for conflict, instead of discussion?
Is there not a place to hope and work for a warm and nurturing world for children of every race? A place where neither fear nor guilt attaches to the color of one’s skin? And must the crusade for racial justice be blind to issues that it raises in the lives of children of every color?
What about the white child that turns away from the evening news and asks mom, “Do we hate black people?” What about the white child who plays police and sees on the evening news a narrative that depicts him and his childish dream as racist and evil?
It is wrong to ask any child to do anything other than value himself, to be proud of his family and heritage and to believe in his basic goodness and potential. We want children to believe that the world is a good place, a place where they have opportunity and a future, not a world where they have a centuries-old debt to pay.
No child should be afraid to go to school – or on into life – because of his color.
And no noble cause can advance itself by troubling the minds of the young.
Equality, the prime objective of the American experiment, is achieved by raising all, not lowering any. There is no moral authority in chastisement and rage. And certainly there is a path forward in which a white child and a black child – like all children – can rejoice together in their mutual citizenship and equality.
We haven’t found that path yet.
Only if you are unable to comprehend.
Unfortunately this IS happening.My cousin’s ‘woke’ nearly 40 daughter showed her three kids a documentary on Ruby Bridges on ‘Juneteenth‘. Her younger daughter, age 7, was crying at the end and said ‘I don’t want to be White anymore’. Her mother (my cousin’s daughter) was so proud. Have we lost a whole generation to the “Hate America’ teachers? Did it happen when both Moms and Dads were working hard to be able to provide for their family, so didn’t have the time or the energy to make sure their children were learning the truth about our History?
Thank you.
This is the society we live in.
“America traded one brand of racial bigotry for another?”
Accepting the Left’s premise. Huge mistake. He also reduces race to “skin color” which is laughable.
These white children will either be slaughtered, or they will do what the previous four generations of whites were able to avoid: they will take their own side.
I don’t comprehend the stance of anyone black white or polka dotted that would not take it as a given that you teach a child that they are judged by their actions and character by anyone that matters.
Any person or institution that judges by color or ethnicity is rotten at the core and should be avoided like the plague. Children need to know that their actions & choices define them, that they are loved & valued, that they must strive to be the best they can be. All children matter and they must learn with the support & examples from their parents to have the courage of their convictions and the will to do lead an upright life. Most of all they need to learn to slough off the lies that a self serving society tries to entrap them with.
Universities are doing absolutely everything they can as fast as they can to insure that an individuals point of view is sacrificed for a collective view.
This writer believes what is NOT possible because we live in a Hierarchical society - people arranged in order of rank top to bottom, where individual skills and fitness vary with levels of education, power and importance. Thus there will always be a lower income levels of people who either choose not or cannot rise above their level of capability even when they are supported.
Your story is very sad. That is child abuse. Teaching a child self loathing is a recipe for life long self abusive behaviors.
Parents who are getting on “this blame whitey bus” are looking for excitement, a sense of being special & important and are throwing their kids under the bus to get that feeling of being one of the “in” crowd.
.....”If (big ‘if’) Black Fathers decided to man up and raise their offspring”....
The closest they get to that appears to be when they marry educated white women these days...seems to be the rage the last few decades.
WHO WILL EXPLAIN TO CHILDREN THAT THEIR WHITE SKIN MAKES THEM BAD?
What isn’t the education system doing a good enough job at it?
American schools and media have already done an effective job at brainwashing them!
I am appalled that people entrust their children to an organization that so clearly does not have the children’s best interests at heart. My oldest 3 went to school and we fought the battles. Lost in the end with the ones that went to Cornell & Penn State. The youngest was homeschooled.
No it's not........It's a reoccurring Demorat/leftist political/media driven/ propaganda effort to ‘transform’ society into a ‘collective’ society they can control.
Joe Biden tweeted Sunday night that if he gets elected, his administration “won't just rebuild this nation — we'll transform it,” ...... exactly as Obama said in his Presidential run....and his wife said they'd bring us along even if it had to be kicking and screaming.....
We're not in that society or they wouldn't be trying to transform it.
Agree. Young children have enough trouble with their self image. This is an intelligent woman. Maybe she just wants to feel part of the acceptable crowd.
see post 26....on comprehension
This has been going on for decades, Antifa goes way back. It’s not new. I am dropping *BLM* and replacing it with *Antifa* for accuracy.
I disagree with the author’s statement that the “world” hates white. There remain countries in Europe where whites are not considered evil.
I suspect that Eastern and Central Europe (Poland) have yet not been suckerooed into this giant scam. The Eastern Bloc nations still learn history.
Maybe cause that white woman will hold him accountable on a short leash?
Call me old fashioned, traditional, heck - some will call me ‘racist’, but I will never be able to wrap my head around inter-ethno-marriage.
Like my Spanish Grandma used to say, “You never see a crow flying together with a dove in nature”.
um... you DID comprehend that THAT was the entire gist of this article, didn’t you?
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