I Told My 4-Year-Old the Truth About Slavery
Our ancestors lived it so our children can learn it
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6 min readFeb 17, 2020
There will never be an easy way to introduce the painful aspects of Black history to a Black child in America. On a cold day in February, I headed to my four-year-old son’s preschool to pick him up. Unbeknownst to me, his life had changed that day. Usually, he would run to me and greet me with a huge…
