The making of a global citizen means teaching your kids about racism
International schools cite as their mission the development of the “global citizen” and place a premium on fostering cultural understanding. In Virginia, the word “culture” tends to be associated more with war than understanding. As in culture war.“Almost as soon as my kids started school, one of them came home asking why somebody had told her that her skin looked like dirt,” Jacinth Green recalled. “Then she’d ask why teachers were making comments about her hair.
Regardless of the bad example shown by others, a show of respect can still make the difference between a gunfight and a handshake. The books they are using for research line the shelves of a bookcase. Books are stacked on a coffee table; books are open for study on the carpeted living room floor. The book makes a case, as Jones puts it, that “American Christianity’s theological core has been thoroughly structured by an interest in protecting white supremacy.” He lays out the ways White Christianity has been the primary cultural and religious institution creating the nation’s racial caste system, and he calls on his fellow White Christians to cease with their imagined sense of superiority and anti-Black racism.