Stop Calling Babies Racist | Opinion Monica Osborne
, author of The Midrashic Impulse On 4/8/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
The idea that babies are born racist sounds like a really bad joke. In reality, it s become a heated discussion across social media and even at some schools.
It s part and parcel of our current racial reckoning. Across the nation, American schools have been rushing to modify their curricula to address the so-called inescapable racism of white and light-skinned people, including children. Books like
Woke Baby and
A Is for Activist began have been exploding on Amazon. Ibram X. Kendi s book
Antiracist Baby is a #1