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[quote=Anonymous]When I questioned why my child was learning about these things in preschool, a kind black mom told me that her child had already been called horrible names so my child could certainly stand to learn a little bit about history.

She was right, and I appreciate that she answered my tone deaf question.

In Kindergarten, my child asked me why white people, why white adults, yelled at black children and tried to stop them from going to school. Those were really hard conversations for me. I wasn't prepared for them. In first grade, my child made the leap and asked if white people had ever killed black people. And then she asked if they'd ever killed black children. We had some really, really hard conversations. But they were good conversations. She figured the killing out by herself, it was not something her teachers presented to the class. But it was a rational leap - if people would essentially riot to keep black children from attending a school, to what extremes would they go? The most extreme thing she could think of was killing. She learned about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that day.

My kid has the luxury of not thinking about race. Very rarely does she actively consider her race or the implications of what race has meant in history. Even the horrible aspects like slavery can remain abstract to her. She can let go of a bit of that privilege every now and again. She has yet to be damaged by being given factual information. [/quote]

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