More than 500 fifth-grade students in the National School District in California have participated in a program teaching them to promote social justice causes such as gun control and immigration.
The school district, which is just outside San Diego, California, has partnered with a program called “Heroes of Color,” which has students animate videos related to a social justice topic.
CNN visited a participating school to highlight the program and some of the topic choices made by the 11- and 12-year-olds.
“I chose racism because for me, racism is something that I see often and something that happens, and I feel like all people should be treated the same way not because we’re different, but because we are all the same,” said a boy named Christian.
Each given example was rather grim, such as Axel’s, on world hunger. “I feel bad, I really feel bad about this,” he said. “They don’t have the life I have.”
WHITE is a COLOR !!!!