During a Battle of the Books team meeting with my daughter, we were discussing excerpts from Kekla Magoon’s, The Season of Styx Malone. One of the white students couldn’t believe that a parent would ever encourage their child to be ordinary and just keep their head down. The family in question is black. We then went on to discuss how the parent was trying to keep his black sons safe. It gave me so much hope to know that we can raise our white children to really see, advocate for, and amplify the voices of their friends of color.
