To create a better future, students need an education about race
At his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, the teenager who murdered 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket last year acknowledged that he had killed them because they were Black. He believed in the Great Replacement Theory – a racist conspiracy theory that falsely argues that the white race is threatened, and that liberal elites are bringing in immigrants to replace white Americans.
It’s impossible to know if this specific person was salvageable – but imagine what role a real education in Black history might play in the life of vulnerable young Americans like him. There are many – a frightening many – other potential bigoted autodidacts reading the stuff he was reading online. And yet, in some states, schools influenced by right-wing groups and opportunistic politicians are having to shirk their responsibilities to properly educate their students about race. Some say this is out of a fear that white children might feel personal shame and responsibility. Or maybe it’s just plain ignorance; perhaps they actually believe that there is no longer racism operating in society.
Just ask the family of George Floyd. Or the family of Tyre Nichols, a victim of Black police officers invested in what has been described as aWhy shouldn’t American students learn about the racism that has infected their country? It is, after all, the truth.
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