Why You Need to Teach Your Children About Black History
Just like children learn and inherit racism from their elders, they also pick up on the lack of it. All children repeat what they hear from their families, teachers, and peers. And children are attentive and inquisitive enough to pick up on even the slightest hint of a bias. But if we can unknowingly or knowingly pass on our bad traits to children, we also hold the responsibility of teaching them the importance of accepting people from all walks of life. America is an immensely diverse country, but even in the current political and social climate, you cannot even go a day without some incident of racism happening. The Black Lives Matter movement was when the cauldron literally bubbled over, and people refused to accept the injustices enacted on black individuals any longer. These continued incidents of racism, subtle or otherwise, call for a drastic and immediate change, and there is no place better to start that change than with children. They need to be taught about the entire histor...