If We Don't Talk About It Then How Will It Be Fixed?

In my opinion, I think that we need to discuss teaching minority children the language of power because to not discuss it would be like pretending that discrimination is not a factor in our society. Since we all know that it is, we need to talk about how language effects discrimination and the children who are most vulnerable to it. Minority children are stuck in between two realities that pull them in divergent directions. If we lived in a perfect reality, where discrimination didn't exist, then we wouldn't have to worry about teaching children the language of power because they would already know it. Teaching acceptance is teaching children how to function successfully within a structure that is not initially situated to think about their needs. If we want to have universally successful children then we must have children who are able to fit into the power structure and not be separated from it by something as arbitrary as how they speak.


Aimee Clark