“Is White Better Than Black?”
While reading “What Color Is Beautiful?” by Alejandro Segura-Mora, it breaks my heart to hear a student telling another student that he doesn’t want to be black (dark skin) and his mother is giving him a pill to make him white. “WOW!” Why is this student thinking this way? Who do we blame? Do we blame the parents? Do we blame the media companies? We need to remember at a certain age, a child that hears a negative comments of themselves or of their ethnicity can have a BIG impact to that child and change the way he or she think about themselves.
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As teachers, we need to challenge our students to think differently from what the media shows are telling them. American culture needs to change its ways of thinking, were white is better than black.
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Also, in “Raising Issues of Race with young Children” by Rita Tenorio. It talks about Racism issues, is it possible for children in kindergarten and 1st grade to understand Racism issues? Rita Tenorio said: “Centuries-old legacies of bias and racism in our country have made an impact on our lives.” It is sad to say that it still has an impact in our lives today. Even living in Hawaii there’s an issue of racism, but it’s the other way around, were dark is good and white is bad!
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Here’s my question: “How can we teach our students, that it doesn’t matter what color you are outside, it’s the inner beauty that really count?” and “ How can we as teacher’s change this way of thinking, when media corporation says it’s the other way around?”
