4 Things You Should Teach Your Kids About Racism Right Now

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84. reading something is not the same as experiencing it

They can share THEIR experience and you read about it. Yet I share my experience and you challenge it instead of accepting it.

You quote Stokely Carmichael saying that he was beaten and shot for trying to vote, and you say that says something about the 1970s. Well, I can find that in the 1960s, Carl Stokes was already a mayor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Stokes In some parts of the country, black people were not only voting, they were holding the highest elected office in the city. In Cleveland - a major US city.

Then I read about Stokely himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael

"He attended the elite, selective Bronx High School of Science in New York, with entrance based on academic performance."

That doesn't really sound like a life of hardship in the 1960s. Neither does this

"Carmichael's apartment on Euclid Street was a gathering place for his activist classmates.[4] He graduated in 1964 with a degree in philosophy.[2] Carmichael was offered a full graduate scholarship to Harvard University, but turned it down.[9]"

So our racist institutions, founded on racism, offered this black man a full graduate scholarship to Harvard, futhermucking HARVARD in 1964. Boy, I'd hate to walk a mile in those shoes.

He chose instead to help other people - in the south - in the 1960s. Again, that is NOT the whole country, neither is it the mid to late 1970s, when I guess a lot of young white Americans were learning that there is something wrong with black people by watching Roots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(miniseries)