They asked her if she wanted to experience what her ancestors experienced. It was a bank in a dark room to represent the space beneath the ships where they placed the slaves that would navigate for months to Curacao. Did I lose you here? Who wants to read about slavery? But this is not about slavery, it's about a mindset. Furthermore, it’s about how we educate our children not only black but all children. Because when this little girl went home from this marvelous excursion, she turned on the tv and she wanted to be white. The white people didn’t have this heavy load on their shoulders. Why did God make me black? Why is it so important for me to know only this small fragment in black history? How would it be if they teach her where the story started? That every single person on earth came from Africa, maybe she wouldn’t wish to be white. But instead, they ask her to sit on a bank to envision what her ancestors went through. "Your ancestors that were slaves." They told her with distance to the word. We showed them how black people were mistreated among the years on plantations. Kids end up building a whole imagination based on these stories, which will result in fear and anger. I was this kid sitting on the bank 20 years ago, and with the viral story of George Floyd and the Black lives Matter movement a pandora box of emotions opened. It is difficult to think about anything else than to impersonate myself with all these stories of black people in the USA.

Felicia