Racial Socialization In Schools

Do you believe that racial socialization is right and should be used in schools across the country not only with African Americans? The United States alone has been involved in many wars, slavery, racism, torture, and boycotts throughout the years, its only right to teach students every side of the story and to love one another no matter how different they may be. For myself, I first went to a school where most of them were people of color, I learned more about culture than other important historical events at an early age. What I experienced at an early age is what I consider a form of racial socialization. Racial Socialization is defined as “ specific verbal and non-verbal messages transmitted to younger generations for the development of …show more content…
This Revolution we are not taught in school because to me since the people who lost were those in white bodies and were killed by those in black bodies we are not taught this. During my junior year in high school I had taken the course American History and now that I look back on that time I realize that I had learned more about the civil rights movement in my English class than the actual American History course. In my English class we were reading poems from during the Civil Rights era and to help us understand my teacher had taught us more about the Civil Rights era. In my History class we focused mainly the major battles that occurred in the American Civil War than the meaning behind it. Once the Civil Rights era came around we had to choose a topic write a paper about it and hand it in. Once we handed it in we learned once again was taught to get an broad understanding of important people during that time and moved on to the next …show more content…
I believe that the education they received bettered them off as a person compared to the education I would be receiving. When trying to integrate my friends together it never seemed to end well. My friends in white bodies would constantly talk down to my friends in colored bodies, but never me. My friends in white bodies would constantly assume that my friends in black bodies would steal from them if they went to their house when in fact most of my friends in black bodies had more money than my white bodied friends. I believe their brief education that people who have black bodies were oppressed makes them still think that most of them are and affects the way they see them as people. When we had an exchange student come from South Africa, it would be mindbogoling to the students in white bodies that a student in a black body from South Africa could come to the United States and be one of the smartest students in the school. To them people in black bodies from Africa doesn't get such a good education, that its better than theirs. If you are briefly taught that most of the people in black bodies in Africa are oppressed, it would be hard for you to understand how one could have money, come to the United States with a education much better than yours of a white body. To me this proved that the education you receive could shape how