Day 14 - All Kids are Kids.

All kids are kids,
And then they are
kids of the white
and kids of the black.
kids of the settled,
kids of the migrants,
kids of the brahmins
and kids of the rest.

kids of the rich
and kids of the poor
kids of hetero-cisgender
and kids of the queer.
kids who were already ahead
when the race of the life began
and kids who have dropped out
coz some "don't see color".

You ask, where's privilege?
When only 6% of kids of the white
attend high poverty schools,
whereas the percentage for the
kids of the black is 40%.
But, then, as you say,
all kids are kids.

The unemployment rate
for African-americans
is nearly double
from those of the whites
and before you say,
those people should work hard,
well, did you know that the whites
with the same exact resume

are hired at a double rate?

In fact, a white man 

with a criminal history 

is more likely to be hired 

than an African American 

with no criminal past!

At every level of education, 

whites were twice as likely 

to have jobs as blacks.

But then, you will still say,
all kids are kids.

To you, my friend,
if this is still not privilege

Then check this,

with exact same experience 
of work and education
kids of the blacks, 
who are now men

earned 23% lesser 
than their white counterpart,
And still ,you will say,

all kids are kids?

So, listen brother!
Let's see the problem
of the migrating kids,
of them loosing friends...
and friends loosing them,
of them lost in cultures unknown
and torn in the worlds apart,
and address them as they are.

But let's not refute privilege,

because they are if anything,
victims of their own privilege,
of their parent's travel choices,
of being a predominately white,
or white-washed community
despite being from so many countries,
in, as you say, a "third world country".

All kids are kids, but
I wonder, how do you say
that there's no privilege

'coz if there was none,

your kid would not be an expat
and another migrant's, a refugee.


- Based on a presentation made by a fellow social studies teacher in a session on Third Culture Kids / Intercultural Competence and Michael Harriot's Yes, You Can Measure White Privilege

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