Leanne
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“Learning to spot “that stuff ”—whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist—is an important skill for children to develop.”
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.”
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“The relevant question is not whether all Whites are racist but how we can move more White people from a position of active or passive racism to one of active antiracism.”
― Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.”
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“Educating ourselves and others is an essential step in the process of change. Few of us have been taught to think critically about issues of social injustice. We have been taught not to notice or to accept our present situation as a given, “the way it is.” But we can learn the history we were not taught, we can watch the documentaries we never saw in school, and we can read about the lives of change agents, past and present. We can discover another way. We are surrounded by a “cloud of witnesses” who will give us courage if we let them.”
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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