With so many events transpiring over the last few months, we now can truly understand the need for color and culture to be seen and highlighted throughout all of our world. We need to see images that represent us and others in our educational materials, books and curriculum. God created us all in His image to fit His vision for humanity. Why should the products we use not reflect the images and faces seen across the world? It became clear to me that this had to be a priority for me to reflect these things in our products. Why are so many homeschool books and curriculum totally void of brown, black and people of color? The lack of representation is a false image of our world. We should seek truth in ALL things.
Sadly, the very people that are purchasing many of these products cannot even find one reflection of themselves in that material. Why do we so freely welcome these things? Why does is sometimes go unnoticed? I truthfully think that many publishers simply don't want to highlight certain people and cultures. We have to do better and demand better in spaces where we spend money. The other solution is to create our own products that reflect us.. Simple. As a black mom with multicultural/multiracial children and heritage, it is super important for me to create and present them with material that they can find faces like theirs among those pages.
People of other cultures can also benefit from reading material to learn about people of cultures besides their own. Sometimes this may be the only exposure to those of other backgrounds that some children and their parents may have. Let's make a conscious effort as parents, homeschoolers and human beings to highlight brown/biracial/black/POC faces and lives.
Stay tuned for part 2! Coming Soon!
Not my kids lol
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