TLDR, you were lucky, virginia has a lot of racial segregation, and we all need to do more to fight childhood hunger. Seriously, go give money to https://www.f

TLDR, you were lucky, virginia has a lot of racial segregation, and we all need to do more to fight childhood hunger. Seriously, go give money to https://www.feedingamerica.org/ https://www.feedingamerica.org/ or https://www.savethechildren.org/ https://www.savethechildren.org/ or give to a local food bank. Five bucks even. I think that the idea that discussions of systemic racism or white supremacy are teaching kids to be victims isn't a fair assessment of how such education is structured. It's just like how kids are taught about climate change, as best I can tell. It's a problem, and they all need to be aware and do their part. Teaching kids about climate change hasn't lead them to all give up since the planet is likely going to be in bad shape from global warming, it's empowered them, at least some of them, to fight for a future in which we change things and make things better. The thing is, racism doesn't go away if you pretend it doesn't exist. Maybe you didn't experience it, but per the 2000 census, about 1 in five Virginians are Black. You being one of the few brown kids means you likely grew up very differently from many Black and Brown students in Virginia, and I expect that is likely the result of decades of white Virginians working to end school bussing and other integration efforts, creating new school districts and private schools, shifting school attendance boundaries within districts. I think you have to remember that racism is not natural, that it's effects and results, which have been normalized, need not exist, and consider how much our country fails to do right by kids who are BIPOC. That's what systemic racism is. It's structures and institutions and systems which perpetuate unequal outcomes. We know that integration helps Black students (and their kids) succeed, and that studies generally fail to demonstrate any significant negative effect on white students. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/1/21121022/did-busing-for-school-desegregation-succeed-here-s-what-research-says https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/1/21121022/did-busing-for-s... There doesn't have to even be any outright in your face animosity against Black and Brown people, it's just that, places with higher levels of Black and Brown people in Virgnia are more likely to undertake school district or school attendance rezoning, and rezoned areas are more likely to concentrate people who are poor and Black or Brown, or who are middle to upper class and white. https://cecr.ed.psu.edu/sites/default/files/School_Segregation_by_Boundary_Line_in_Virginia_Nov_2020.pdf https://cecr.ed.psu.edu/sites/default/files/School_Segregati... And that's just how it's failing kids with school segregation, do you want to know the stats on childhood hunger? as of March 2020, about 1 in five families surveyed said they didn't have enough food. Just the lack of subsidized school lunch during Covid in many places means kids are going without necessary nutrition. And, surprise, Black and Hispanic kids are twice as likely as non Hispanic white kids to face hunger in America. That is, again, systemic racism. I imagine that probably doesn't help their personal or professional success, not to mention their mental health. I linked two places people could donate to help feed hungry kids above, you can ignore me or disagree with what I said, but seriously, if you are doing well, you can spare a few bucks at least.