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No Vaccine For Racism?
When Sen. Kamala Harris accepted the nomination for the vice-presidency at the Democratic National Convention, she made it clear to the American people there was no vaccine for racism — We have to do the work.
That’s a fact, besides what parent would allow their child to be injected with racism to develop an immunity, but after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where Latino’s were targeted, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated, white supremacy was a virus, and America has not been inoculated.
This implies a vaccination process is possible.
Jennifer Harvey wrote the book Raising White Kids: Bringing up children in a racially unjust America and the article: How not to raise a racist white kid. In the article Harvey stated, no previous white generation handed down the kinds of lessons that previous black generations passed on to their youth about race. (Harvey doesn’t give an example of a generational lesson that blacks passed down. It’s implied that black people taught their children white people are racist and America is a racist country.) Black people know, and study after study back it up, that there’s no such thing as too early when it comes to talking with our kids about race and racism.
And we can’t get to the antiracism part if we don’t interrupt patterns of white silence. (Or we can’t create antiracist white children…