Growing up I was taught mostly about people that looked like me unless I was being taught about slavery, Martin Luther King Jr, or black leaders at random during the morning announcements during the Month of February. I am extremely thankful for my black coworkers, fellow teachers that showed our students they could be anything they wanted to be and showed them black people making great strides (not because they weren’t able to achieve but because American society and historical cycles made it extra hard/near impossible for them) to be examples and live this out.