This became all too real for me about a year and a half ago when my son, only three years old and attending some kind of pre-pre-preschool, received a homework assignment where he had to honor his favorite figure in black history. (We made him do DJ Kool Herc just to confuse the teachers.)
But mind you, they were requiring that he honor black idols before they started teaching him to read and write.
There’s something very, very wrong there.
