Monday, January 22, 2018

i will no longer raise my children to be colorblind

among the things i am working on with artemis this year for homeschooling is racism.

we need to know what it is and how it begins and how it is perpetuated if we want to eliminate it. kind of like studying a disease - to find a cure for smallpox, we had to find out what it was, what causes it, how it's spread, and how it could be eradicated.

racism is bad. on that, i hope we all can agree. we want there to be a world without racism. i think we can similarly look towards that as a goal.

here's where we are looking at things following some sort of structure, making it a little more formal than just discussing the news, which we also do:


which has led to finding this series of videos on MTV News, called decoded


a site i'll use for reference purposes is blackpast.org

documentary i am not your negro

to be continued . . .

addendum: i've added a resource list on a new page titled social justice