Teaching kids to see skin color as an essential part of their identity is what America spent decades fighting to get away from. The Sesame Street I grew up with in the 1970s was all about de-emphasizing race - the show's cast was diverse, the muppets were racially ambiguous.https://twitter.com/NBCBLK/status/1374965165553295363 …
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I mean, OK, Roosevelt Franklin was obviously black. But nobody talked about race on the show. Showing people together and not caring about race was the point.
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Elmo has lived on Sesame Street for thirty years.https://twitter.com/TurnedLawyer/status/1375099934538612744 …
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Imagine any show having white characters say, “the color of our skin is an important part of who we are.” We should not be teaching white kids in this country to think that way. But if they hear it from everybody else, how are you going to tell them it's wrong?
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So you interpret "we" as everybody? I'm thinking "we" is stressed in the reading of the sentence. i.e. "It's an important part of who WE are. Not you, of course, only us."
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Try explaining that to a 3 year old
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