In this audio, a Black father shares an experience that his youngest daughter had going to a private school where she was one of the only Black students in her class. He recalls how the school had a lot of resources and she shares how special she felt there. Yet, there came a moment where he and his wife felt that the school wasn’t fitting her spirit and the education, she was receiving wasn’t what they wanted so they moved her to a new school. He describes how his daughter has begun to reflect on her time at the private school now that she has a better understanding of systemic racism and the BLM movement. At 13-years-old she has a deep awareness and understanding of how she assimilated to that culture, and it makes her angry.
She was angry at herself for code-switching and acclimating to that culture and feeling like that she was somehow better. And she acknowledged it and she was angry and she is 13-years-old
