EXACTLY!!!

I literally screamed THANK YOU! When I read your response.

I visited the Af-Am museum in Baltimore some time ago and still remember the reaction of this one kid to one of the slave exhibits. He was there with his grandmother and appeared to be 10 or 11 years old.

She was explaining some aspects of slavery to him and he responded
that it wouldn't have been me and later responded that I'm not a slave while walking away from the exhibit. He basically wanted to leave.

I wanted to interject but knew that I wouldn't be articulate enough at the moment to address how I knew he was feeling.

There needs to be some sort of pamphlet or guide to teaching Black kids about slavery. Its too easy for some Black kids to internalize this history in negative ways and not see ANY source of pride in where we are now given what our ancestors went through.