Memo to white families:
Black parents have to counteract with outside learning and study the wrong, misleading, ignorant, whitewashed messages transmitted in public schools LITERALLY ALL THE TIME.
"Patriotism education" is just a new phrase for the same BS that usually goes on during the white-centered, Western-loving, washed and erased fairy tales y'all been calling "history" since you colonized and conquered shit.
So, yes, if you want Junior to grow to be something other an ignorant propaganda-fed sympathizer for an America that was *never* all that great, you have to do some outside work. You might have to go the extra mile to *expose* your kids to books they won't teach them in school.
That urgent need to counteract the one-sided lessons they hear in school IS THE LIVED EXPERIENCE of every educated black person out here. WELCOME to the world where you have to explain why teachers are wrong and where they can look for additional information.
And be thankful that you live in the age of the internet as you start this journey. *My* parents had to hook me up in the NYPL with goddamn MICROFICHE when I came home spouting some crap I "learned about in school."
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