A Step In The Right Direction/When True Inclusion Doesn’t Require Illusions.

Some say all it takes is one step.

I think it’s amazing as well as great to see visuals of young melanated girls being protected and stood up for.

Sometimes you have to go back and start at the basics…

So, why not start with Sesame Street?

Even if people want to have a McDowell vs McDonald sesame seed bun conversation and say it’s Sesame Place not Sesame Street.

I’m feeling like Morris the Barber, ” I’ma call it Sesame Street”.

Anywhoo…

Sesame Street is as basic as you can get as far as planting a seed into a foundation.

It’s kind of sad but there was a time where it was actually okay to put young black girls on the front line of a march…

Yet, it seemed as if no one was marching for them.

So, I think it’s great to see visuals, conversations and organizations that will step in for young melanated girls showing in action and deed that they are just as kind, smart and important.

I feel situations like Sesame Street can also be used as teachable moments…

For adults, to acknowledge how this Sesame Street scenario is possibly bringing up their first experiences of rejection.

After, the adults and children can acknowledge and go through the process of processing how they truly feel in safe spaces.

Maybe, it can also turn into a lesson of the importance of melanated children not allowing the opinions of others to dictate who they are.

As well as showcasing to melanated children the many options that are available to them to just BE.

I would love to see these young beautiful children on Tab Time.

Even though Sesame Street initial demographic started out as a show geared toward the black community.

I’m sure there are plenty of other melanated shows that is for the melanated children’s mind and are very mindful of what enters the melanated child’s mind.

I’m sure that there are also plenty of melanated shows that truly have good intentions towards melanted children and not just giving an illusion of inclusion.

It’s kinda interesting how it can make you rethink the phrase “If you can’t beat em, join em”.

But you ain’t heard it from me…

(In my Benita Butrell voice)

I also can understand why for some people one reason they empathized with these young girls is because similar situations might have happened when they were younger.

Sometimes, when stories are too familiar, it can get personal…

At, some point if EVERY generation is saying the same thing about a certain type of behavior pattern it must long for completion.

But anyhoo back to the subject at hand.

So, for me I now realize why I have such a special appreciation for adults who can acknowledge and take the steps needed to heal certain thought patterns that lead to situations that happened in their childhood.

I also appreciate adults who make sure that now that THEY ARE ADULTS they refuse to allow certain types of mentalities to be passed down to the next generation.

I’ve seen how these types of adults navigate and how they know firsthand that one of the many pitfalls of the illusion of inclusion is eventually that illusion will get torn down.

Inherently, it seems they know to make way, for when it’s true inclusion there is no need for an illusion.

Written and Conceived By:

DaSh’e

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