'Highly Offended' White Teacher Kicked My 9-Year-Old Son Out of Class for Taking Knee During Pledge
Dash had not asked for my permission to take a knee; nor did he need it. He has followed the national conversations on state violence and policing in this country. He has seen video of police shootings. We’d like to think that our babies haven’t seen people who look like them gunned down in the streets, but they have. Between social media, iPhones, YouTube and news stations, they’ve seen it. As parents, we just have to figure out how to talk to them about it.
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The idea that black children have the luxury to be as oblivious to the world around them as white children is absurd. But it comes from the sedentary minds of willfully ignorant white adults, who were once the oblivious white children who didn’t have to worry about deputized bigots gunning them down if they walked to the store to buy Skittles.
My baby has been rocking #42 since he was 5. He’s always taken stances against injustice. He knows that police officers are gunning down his people with impunity. He made the decision to take a knee on his own and I’m so proud of him. They will not dim his light. pic.twitter.com/YriCNfXMfu
— Kirsten West Savali (@KWestSavali) May 10, 2018
Black pain is nothing more than a threadbare cushion for them, passed down from generation to generation, protecting them from confronting their own aggressive white mediocrity.
This past week, I’ve really thought deeply about what it means for enemies to educate our children. Not the national dialogue around slavery in textbooks—nor teachers and security guards inflicting violence on students—but the smaller moments that occur in between the lines, in hallways and advisory periods; the ways in which some educators attempt to colonize our children’s minds until their blackness becomes palatable to society.
In an open letter to his nephew, James Baldwin wrote: “The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity and fear.”
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Dash
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I agree with you 100%...
"So should we all."
We are looking at the future here, just like the Parkland students.
He's your bae!
This is a beautiful relationship I see building between you two. It's just like my marriage - he says anything to get your attention. Negative is better than no attention at all! 
your true colours on this one. No pun intended.
And if you're going to judge people by what they've done when young, get ready to get the same treatment.
too bad some can't "get it". But, they are the usual suspects.
...and your comment, so true.
And I applaud him for his non-disruptive protest.
To me, the pledge is a promise I make to the nation and to the ideas of liberty and justice. Just because there might not always be liberty and justice doesn’t mean I shouldn’t continue to make that pledge to do so on my part.
If this was my daughter, I’d be proud and respectful of her opinion. Kids these days a growing up to not be silent in their political beliefs 
The same thing with the National anthem. I’d never do anything but stand at the position of attention (as the military dictates you do when you arent in uniform) during its playing. To me, it has a different meaning and symbolism than probably to most - but I respect and completely support those who take a knee. I understand the meaning it has to them too.