Well what would you expect from the Washington Post? Sense and sensibility? Rationale? Logic? Facts? Good old fashioned horse sense? Nope. It’s senselessness and insensitivity, irrational, illogical, often false and full of good old fashioned horse shit. 😂

I'm thinking all kids could stand to learn a bit of pride.

(Sigh). We are a good way down the road in overcoming our past, but obviously there are some who haven't arrived...and WILL never arrive, because they grew up being taught that they [i]were[/i] going to be the victims of discrimination. ("The talk", for example.) And that the color of their skin would always be a source of victimization for some.

“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.”
― Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise

It's so endemic and so sad...that among black Americans the actual SHADE of your skin matters to OTHER black Americans. Did you know that there are some black American families who will not allow their children to date or marry those with darker skin? They say that is messing up their "race". I found that a while back in an article about skin bleaching.

Black people don't even like Kamala Harris. You know why? Because she's not descended from black American slaves and she is using JUST the color of her skin to try to claim kinship. Yet the same people who hate Harris for that get to school US in the language we used to describe Covid19.

I never taught my son guilt or shame. I taught him NOT to make racist jokes...even though he was just repeating a racist joke my former brother-in-law told him.

I thought to myself, yesterday, after Joe Biden's racist comment, that there are some people of color who "identify" so strongly with the color of their own skin that this will probably never end. The guilt they splash onto others for their ancestors slavery won't stop. Because really, that's all they've got to make themselves special.

When we stop being cruel to each other, and stop being SO sensitive about skin color, (so that we can't even mention where Covid19 originated because that MIGHT imply racism), and everyone is just treated like a human being with their own thoughts and individual differences...when it is NOT all about race...but all about people of EVERY color...then we will have arrived at the end of the road. And THAT is when Maya Angelou's poems will become reality.

[quote]We need more white parents to talk to their kids about race. Especially now.[/quote]I agree - the White race.
They have spent way too much time learning about other races - how about their own for once ?

People that say and write this shit is a reason I won't hire non white