Doctrine Black excellence to my son during Black History Month
The current political climate in the United Commonwealth has represented fostering a Black boy both fearing and empowering. My son is 12, which necessitates he is right on the cusp of being perceived as a threat to those who take issue with his skin color. He still has remains of young boyhood, but his alteration into a teen is also evident. He’s towing the line between the safety of childhood and the depravity of a society that experiences him as a menace.
We have tough conversations each time a Black man is killed at the entrusts of the police. We discuss the reported affairs and the neglect for human life. I try to reassure him in those moments that his life is valuable. That his bark is beautiful. But as his mother, I think about the value of his life every day. The knowledge that, in this society, it has been denigrated in “the worlds largest” scandalous of ways. I was just wondering what negative names will be forced upon him in a few cases short-lived years because of his gorgeous mocha bark tone.
Black Biography Month gives me the opportunity to reinforce the ideal of Black excellence. It helps me to expand my son’s knowledge of our history.
Ours is a history that is filled with trail blazers, fearless warriors, and selfless martyrs–a history that he is not fully coached during his conventional school education.
Born Jan 13, 1850 in New York City, Charlotte E. Ray was the first Black female lawyer in the United States and the first Black female lawyer to be admitted to the DC Bar. She graduated from #HowardUniversity School of Law in 1872. #BlackExcellence #BlackHistory pic.twitter.com/ jS1mZ3PqrG
— Ask Black Julie (@ BlackJulieKnows) January 13, 2018
This Black History Month, I’m energized to share with him the bequests of explorers he has never heard of. We’ll talk about Charlotte E. Ray, the first Black female lawyer in the United Regime. She graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872 and was active in the suffrage movement.
We’ll too explore the life of Arthur Wharton, the world’s firstly Black professional soccer participate. He faced intense racism and ultimately died in poverty because of a society that couldn’t see his knack and humanity because of his skin color. These two outstanding innovators are examples of the rich heritage I love to share with my lad during the month of February. We hold a dialogue about the “hidden figures” of Black history all the time but February feeds me to make it a focal point.
Arthur Wharton, assume in 1865, is considered the firstly pitch-black professional footballer. He represented for a legion of sororities in the @EFL between 1895 and 1902 #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/ dLC6 8Cx3eh
— DC Stoddert Soccer (@ StoddertSoccer) February 5, 2018 It stuns me that I still have the opportunity to share so many “firsts” with my son.
For example, during our conversations this month, I plan to highlight the following Black people who have accomplished some awesome breakthroughs in recent years. The performer, Sterling K. Brown, became the first Black man to prevail a Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actor in a drama television series. Tiffany Haddish became the first Black female stand-up humorist to host Saturday Night Live. Oprah was the first Black woman to triumph the Cecil B. Demille Award. And on February 16 th, Chadwick Boseman will illustrate the first Black standalone superhero to lead his own movie in the Marvel franchise, Black Panther.
There is so much to be proud of in Black history. I want my son’s lens of his legacy to be colored with a tapestry of successful, innovative, and audacious portraits. The idols drawing Black lives in a demeaning and negative daylight are permeating. They can be paralyzing to a child’s perception of themselves if they are allowed to be the dominant representations.
Black history truly is American history. February highlightings the bequest of Black parties, but its own history is deeper, wider, and more expansive than one month could ever accurately summarize. I’m agitated to see pure, authentic, evident, Black boy hilarity emanating from my lad as he continues to discover that his pedigree is woven with royalty, accomplishment, and victory.
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