.kerrywashington is reassessing how Black History is taught. 'I think it's really important that we start to introduce the idea of race with a Black History that begins before teaching kids what black people were told they couldn't do,' she said.
protests, is reassessing how Black History is taught, especially when it comes to her own children with husband Nnamdi Asomugha: Isabelle, 6, Caleb, 3, and her teenage stepdaughter.
"There's a lot of posts about privilege looks like discovering that racism exists as opposed to knowing that it exists," Washington explained during a virtual appearance on. "For a lot of Black families, we don't have the privilege of ignoring what's going on and pretending that it's not happening.
But Washington doesn’t think that’s an appropriate starting point. “I think it's really important that we start to introduce the idea of race with a Black History that begins before teaching kids what black people were told they couldn't do, right?" she told Kimmel. "So, there's Maasai Warriors and the kingdoms of Ghana and Queen Nefertiti and the pyramids of Egypt.
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