Please consider watching this video.
This video can be viewed from several providers. We have used our Amazon Prime account at no charge. Always watch the video with closed caption because the main speaker is deaf and is sometimes difficult to understand.
Here is the link to get started. https://howjackbecameblack.com/
Film Synopsis: This groundbreaking documentary opens simply: a multiracial father is stunned when his mixed race son is denied enrollment to an elementary school for refusing to check a “race box.” Why did race matter so much? To find out, the father takes an uncharted journey across America where he confronts and exposes identity politics. The result is an emotional, unbiased, and educational look at race in America.
Viewer’s Take: Having a bi-racial daughter has always disturbed us having to check the racial box. My daughter was born in a third-world country, and is just so thrilled to be an American and be part of our great and multi-racial country. We have had many discussions on “checking the box”. Throughout her life we have left the boxes unchecked, or checked “other” if we had no choice. She just wants to be known as an American, not a hyphenated American.
Mariemont school parent