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Before I get into this chapter, I just want to apologize for not updating this book and being so inactive. For the past year and a half, I've been very inconsistent with my watt-pad posting and have had a lot of hiatuses. So I haven't gotten the chance to post much on this account, and haven't gotten around to posting anything on this book as well.
However, I do want to say I am still very involved with POC activism and mainly repost resources ( and talk about it ) on Instagram whenever I get the chance. I apologize once again for not being so active to share what I speak on in this book. I'll try my best to be more active :).
Moving on, I want to talk about the importance of accurately teaching black history and why it should be taught properly in school.
Every February, I have to sit through bullshit classes of teachers doing half-assed jobs of teaching black history or opting to just talk about equality and why people should be nice to each other. Before y'all go crazy on me, I'm talking 6-minute videos of animated characters talking about love and affection or the Martin Luther King speech.
Some of my teachers even admitted to seeing racism and xenophobia in our schools and doing nothing about it. Only to say just how sad they feel about the discrimination because of how comfortable they are in the school ( mind you most of my teachers are white and very much cisgendered)
Black history month is supposed to be the month where the correction of mistold stories and the telling untold stories of black history can be taught. Treating Black history as a minor genre or an unnecessary part of history is sadly incorrect and damaging to future generations, that will only repeat the mistakes of all of our ancestors. Only teaching kids about the brief history of slavery will only continue the inferiority that black kids have to face to white children who don't know better and this lack of proper teaching can be used as a way of degradation.
If the black history ( and all other POC and LGBT history) were taught the same way that European history is taught, it would create more unity and common ground amongst the races and would help remove the ignorance that plays a huge part in racism today.
As unfortunate as it is, You can't expect kids who don't know better ( especially if their parents don't try to teach them ) to treat other ethnic groups as equals, if schools ( and parents alike ) don't teach them history accurately.
When teachers talk about the creation of slavery as a contract deal that POC signed up for because of resources ( which is wildly inaccurate). Kids will show no mercy because, in their minds, they signed up for it. Not teaching kids the severity of how racial slurs were used would only have them continue to make jokes about them. Not teaching people about just how brutal civil rights activists fought for their rights would only instill the belief that; " while the past was bad, they were able to solve it". When that's simply not true and is incredibly damaging to the POC community and of course, our ( and future ) generation.
It's crazy just how much the educational system can aid the fight for unity if they just provided adequate information about poc history.
That's my two cents on everything, I would be happy to hear what you all have to say. I hope y'all are resting and staying safe. Please remember to wear a mask 🖤.
What are things that y'all would like me to speak about?
