Robin Abcarian: Kids deserve to know the truth about America's racist past. Even if it's painful
Last month, school officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, told teachers to stop showing students a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated an all-white New Orleans elementary school in the 1960s.
A white parent had complained that the movie was not appropriate for second-graders, as the scenes showing people threatening Ruby and calling her names might teach students that white people hate Black people.
Oh, my gosh, you might find yourself asking, could some white people hate Black people?
Did white people ever fight to keep Black children away from their schools, their neighborhoods, their stores, their buses, their drinking fountains?
It's just really hard to imagine
