Have To Teach Their Children This In The Usa By Mary Engelbreit Analysis

The painting “ No One Should Have to Teach Their Children This in the USA” by Mary Engelbreit focuses on racial issue in America. The painting depicts a teary mother sitting at the table with her son and in front of them is a newspaper that says (Hands Up Don't Shoot). Parents of color often have to teach their children how to comply with the police because they fear for their lives. It is a shame that black children have to be taught how to address a police officer at an early age, and it has become a practice that most parent feel is necessary. Lately there have been more cases were black people are main targets of police brutality. For example Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. In the book Monster the main character Steve Harmon is arrested