Proud of us 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Is it a good thing to shame school children for things they never did? If you grew up in London, apparently that's what you learned. In the words of the founder of Proud of Us:

"I grew up ashamed of my heritage. Growing up in London, I knew only the dark parts. . . I was painted as the oppressor before I'd done anything at all. My friends would joke about their cultures, their histories, their traditions. I never understood mine as they understood theirs. I was told we didn't really have one."

But as a grown-up, s/he discovered there was much more to their culture than just darkness:

"We didn't stop having a culture. We [simply] stopped telling our stories. I'm here to fix that, to put our stories where everyone can find them."

Here's one of those stories:

(cont'd tomorrow)