Discover the crucial need for parents to refrain from passing on negative beliefs to their children, as exemplified by the powerful message conveyed through a photo from a Ku Klux Klan rally. Learn how to offer love, trust, and opportunities for growth to empower the younger generation and enable them to overcome and surpass the limitations of the past.
“Kids are so sweet. So innocent. Which makes the famous photo all the more haunting. A young boy dressed in a white robe and a tall, white, conical hat touches his reflection in a riot shield held by an African American State Trooper named Allen Campbell. The photo was taken in 1992 at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Georgia. “Me and this kid, neither one, made a choice to be here,” Campbell said sympathetically some two decades after the photo was taken. “The state patrol made me come, and his mom and daddy brought him.”
Ryan explains why you shouldn’t impose your biases on your children.
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