AN OPEN LETTER TO WHITE TEACHERS OF BLACK CHILDREN
… If America is going to become a nation, she must find a way—and this [Black] child must help her to find a way—to use the tremendous potential and tremendous energy which this child represents. If this country does not find a way to use that energy, it will be destroyed by that energy.
- James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers
In the spirit of James Baldwin, I begin this letter saying that we are living through a very dangerous time. The society in which we live is desperately menaced, not by terrorist from abroad or any foreign power, but from within.
Our society is menaced by its own social order: white supremacy. The impact of racial capitalism over time on Black lives and the lives of the poor are magnified by the Coronavirus pandemic and illuminated by police brutality. Multiple constituencies of the human family, nationally and worldwide, converge on the streets in protest to name and fight this menace.
However in our country, these heroes are met with identified and unidentified police who employ tear gas and batons as well as those who seek to sabotage their calls for justice.
Although the names of racist politicians and confederate soldiers are removed from schools and the phrase Black Lives Matter are painted on the streets of cities nationwide, Black people continue to be disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus; exacerbated by environmental, economic and CONTINUE READING: An Open Letter to White Teachers of Black Children - Philly's 7th Ward
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