Some of the stories in here sickened them and this made them very sad. My kids couldn’t believe some of this stuff happened. It’s a harsh story and it will hit your kids pretty hard.
It’s something like, “when people of privilege experience parity and equality they feel oppressed.” I butched the quote, but I thought the quote was insightful.
I wish I could remember this exactly, but in church, a speaker gave a powerful quote. We can’t forget the way people were treated and we must be better as a country in treating all people fairly. He’s really good explaining this to the kids. He says kids have to know that language can be used as a tool of abuse and putting people down. I spoke with my brother about it and he said we can’t hide the abuse. I don’t want it to forget these things happened, and I also don’t want to pass these slurs down either. They did include a slur in this story and I understand that this was normal back then, but if you have to explain it to children, you are teaching that slur. In her young life she went in for a tumor and the doctor removed her reproductive organs due to a law against poor people having kids. Her daughter died in her arms outside a hospital because it took so long to get there as hospitals close by wouldn’t take black people. She lived through some terrible times and she was a fighter. This is a powerful account of Frannie Lou Hammer, who I had not heard of.
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