Shega must be learning about black history at school. She has come home with a few stories lately.
Shega asked, "Mom. Did you know that your ‘aunt-cestors’ kept my ‘aunt-cestors’ as slaves?"
I answered with a long explanation about Africa and slaves and a little US history. I told that indeed white people in the US had kept African Americans as slaves. Then I went on to explain that actually her ancestors were in Ethiopia at that time and that her ancestors weren’t actually ever slaves.
She said, "Yes! Yes they were! I am brown and brown people were slaves and you are white and white people were mean."
I said, "Wow! Who told you that?"
She said, "Luke! He knows everything!"
After a bit more explaning which she listened to intently, she said, "What is an aunt-cestor anyway?"
Perhaps she’ll go back to school and tell Luke a thing or two about aunts or ants, but likely not much about ancestors.
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