In my lifetime, I got the opportunity to see Huntley and Brinkley showing the cops in Birmingham, AL beating black marchers, cops turning the police dogs loose to maul them, and authorities turning fire hoses on marchers. These were NOT looters and rioters, they were just black people marching for for the right to be served in restaurants, the right to use the same "public" facilities as whites, and the right to vote. And they didn't wait until I was in the 8th grade to show me that stuff; it was on the network news almost every night.
So why should YOUR kid be "protected" from knowing the truth of American history? I also saw Jack Ruby murder Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV; I didn't have to wait until 8th grade to see that, either. I wasn't "protected" from the truth; why should ANYONE need to be "protected" from the truth? Maybe if kids in America would take their heads and hands away from video games, and spend more time watching the truth of what's going down in America, they'd grow into voters who stood for something beyond party labels, voters who might have some idea what our Constitution actually says and not what the extremists on both sides "tell" them it says.
Or, you can go on "protecting" him from the truth, and let him think "Grand Theft Auto" and other video games are what life is really about.
We've come a long way from the discrimination of the 1960's...and kids need to see how far we've come in race realtions since then. We don't need to shelter them from the truth of how much we've done to reverse the discrimination of the '60's. Despite the Jack Nicholson line, I believe 3rd graders CAN handle the truth. Give 'em some credit; kids learn more by having faith in what they CAN do, and what they CAN learn, and what they CAN handle.
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