These books overgeneralize behaviors, concluding that because a white person did that, all other white people did it and will do it too, no matter what.
This episode discusses three children’s books that promote woke teaching in schools, compel children to see racism in everything, and tell black children that white people are obstacles to black achievements.
The books “Anti-Racist Baby,” “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,” and “Our Skin: Our First Conversation about Race” drive black children to be woke about their skin color, peg black children against white children, and tell black children that white people are evil and will never let black people be successful. These books tell black children that white people are responsible for police brutality, racial injustice and black lives do not matter.
These books overgeneralize behaviors, concluding that because a white person did that, all other white people did it and will do it too, no matter what.
“Anti-Racist Baby,” tells parents to begin raising their children to be anti-racists as toddlers; otherwise, they would grow up to be racists. According to the author, children are born racists and must be bred into becoming anti-racists. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness depicts a white child looking at white police officers killing an unarmed black man. Simply, it shows white children what white people are doing to black people.
I don’t know about you but to me, these books are promoting a divisive message. That message may make Black children feel inferior about their skin color or cancel white people because they may see them as oppressors. If white children read these books, they would either hate themselves, perpetuate the same patterns, or be scared of their black classmates, thinking they may take revenge on them.
I consider these teachings rogue and inappropriate for early grade-school children. I foresee that they might scare black children forever, for they tell them that only miracles may make them succeed in this white-dominated world. These books divide, group, and categorize children based on skin, not based on the content of their character, as so well-pleaded by Martin Luther King. These books claim to provide the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest ages. However, they give ammunition to black children to hate white children and to grow up hating all white people. They convince black children that their skin color dictates how white people treat them, the kind of neighborhoods they will welcome in, or the type of schools they can attend.
In summary, the books “Anti-Racist Baby, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness” and “Our Skin: Our First Conversation about Race” teach children about the complexities of racial injustice. They compel parents to raise anti-racist children because, according to the authors, children were born racists. They portray white people as selfish and oppressive and make black children believe they are inferior to their white classmates.
Bobb Rousseau, PhD
Apostrophe Podcast
The books “Anti-Racist Baby,” “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,” and “Our Skin: Our First Conversation about Race” drive black children to be woke about their skin color, peg black children against white children, and tell black children that white people are evil and will never let black people be successful. These books tell black children that white people are responsible for police brutality, racial injustice and black lives do not matter.
These books overgeneralize behaviors, concluding that because a white person did that, all other white people did it and will do it too, no matter what.
“Anti-Racist Baby,” tells parents to begin raising their children to be anti-racists as toddlers; otherwise, they would grow up to be racists. According to the author, children are born racists and must be bred into becoming anti-racists. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness depicts a white child looking at white police officers killing an unarmed black man. Simply, it shows white children what white people are doing to black people.
I don’t know about you but to me, these books are promoting a divisive message. That message may make Black children feel inferior about their skin color or cancel white people because they may see them as oppressors. If white children read these books, they would either hate themselves, perpetuate the same patterns, or be scared of their black classmates, thinking they may take revenge on them.
I consider these teachings rogue and inappropriate for early grade-school children. I foresee that they might scare black children forever, for they tell them that only miracles may make them succeed in this white-dominated world. These books divide, group, and categorize children based on skin, not based on the content of their character, as so well-pleaded by Martin Luther King. These books claim to provide the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest ages. However, they give ammunition to black children to hate white children and to grow up hating all white people. They convince black children that their skin color dictates how white people treat them, the kind of neighborhoods they will welcome in, or the type of schools they can attend.
In summary, the books “Anti-Racist Baby, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness” and “Our Skin: Our First Conversation about Race” teach children about the complexities of racial injustice. They compel parents to raise anti-racist children because, according to the authors, children were born racists. They portray white people as selfish and oppressive and make black children believe they are inferior to their white classmates.
Bobb Rousseau, PhD
Apostrophe Podcast