I CANNOT wait to teach my son the beauty that is melanin, i cannot wait to see him love himself in a world that positions darker skin as “lesser than”. He will grow up to love himself and his people if it’s the last thing i do as his mother.
so i just remembered this but in 7th grade most of my teachers were jerks but my math teacher was the coolest dude on earth. during the year a bunch of us got in trouble for passing notes in class but got in even bigger troublw when the teachers started reaading them and realized that the notes were about how much we hated their classes. my math teacher learned about this and decided to teach us secret codes that used math and have been used by spies in the past. when the principal walked in on a code lesson one day, my teacher just explained that it was a real world application for math and the principal just gave us a look and walked away. long story short, my math teacher taught us spy codes because he wanted to help us pass notes
my friend works in a nursery and sings under her breath to babies when they cry to get them to stop. today an asian baby was crying so she sang ‘i’ll make a man out of you’
clearly this is the best thing to sing to an asian baby