My Son’s First Week of Daycare Unearthed My Fear of American Systems

I am afraid because all systems have predetermined outputs — for children, and especially Black children.

Hal H. Harris
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8 min readOct 9, 2021

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A Black child playing with a race car. Source: Unsplash.

Monday

My son’s daycare is in a neighborhood where it is almost always autumn. The area north of Little Rock’s Interstate 630 is primarily white and…

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Hal H. Harris
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Black on Both Sides. Medium Writers Challenge Winner. The founder of Established in 1865. I Tweet @Established1865. E-mail is hal.harris@est1865.com.