Thread by @PeteOlusoga

Mini 🧵

I've talked before about how we're all very much socialised into a society steeped in #racism.

It's in the many subtle (or not so subtle) things that we learn without being explicitly taught.

Exhibit A...

It's really easy to look at this early years reading book and the pictures within it and not see anything problematic.

But when you piece it together, you can clearly see the messages that very young kids are being exposed to (and internalising).

One of the questions for kids to answer at the end of the book os "which hair would you NOT like to have?"

Guess what the answer to that question was!

So we're already learning about Black women's and girl's hair and what is 'desirable' and what is not?

And you have to be able to spot those messages to be able to start undoing those messages.

How many parents will read that book and think absolutely nothing of it amd leave those messages unchallenged?

So, yes, we do have to highlight these things and challenge them, because this sort of shit is precisely how our racist ideas are formed early.

And once they're in there, they're tricky to undo.
#racsim
#RacismInEducation #EarlyYears