We Owe Black Girls Their Innocence: Four Ways We Can Give It Back- Part 2

by Andria Cole

In Part 1, we discussed the process by which Black girl innocence is stolen. Here are some personal and practical ways to give it back:

Crown Them Children

Black children are children. Black girl children are children. And if that concept strikes you as strange, if it makes you uncomfortable, you have quite likely been rocked to sleep by one of white supremacy’s most perverse campaigns to prove journalist and child advocate Stacey Patton’s theory of, “there’s no such thing as a black child.”

In a For Harriet article titled “Killing Black Children is an American Tradition,” Patton explains how and why Black children have been denied the privileges and protections of childhood. It should come as no surprise that the reasons have everything to do with ensuring that white supremacy thrives. 

Read the rest of the article at the link below.