When Ndona Muboyayi ran for school board, she posed questions about how and why things were taught in her kids' schools. Proudly affirming her identity as Congolese and American, she also wants to share insight she learned in cross-cultural experiences. Sometimes she hits resistance in American schools.
A teacher was planning a unit on genocide, so Ndona urged her to to include Rwanda as a recent modern example. But the teacher still left out the Rwandan genocide.
Ndona thinks that these African black-on-black genocidal murders had the potential to undermine the whiteness-is-evil narrative taught in her school system. So Rwanda's history had to be ignored for the sake of the narrative, the ideology.
Ndona teaches her children that evil can come in any skin color. Any. Skin. Color.
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