Have you ever had one of those “aha” moments when you least expect it? It took me 50 years, but I recently had one after reading an article with my son for his English class titled, “A Talk to Teachers” by James Baldwin. The article was based on a speech that Baldwin addressed to teachers in 1963—years before I was born—but is just as relevant today—which is telling. Baldwin, a black novelist and activist, had a deliberate purpose for this speech. He was asking educators; those that influence the purest of minds, to rise up against all resistance and change the false history and prejudice that is being taught in school about African Americans. Education in itself is supposed to develop independent thinking, reasoning and judgement in order to fairly and morally access the society in which we live and make needed changes as necessary. If this is the case, how is it that we continue to address racism as a pesky mosquito whose sole aim is to suck the blood out of white privi