Dear Parents

Personally, I think life is about finding truth. Notice how I use the word finding. This does not mean you should indoctrinate your children with your beliefs. In truth, this indoctrination Is a bigger statemen about you than it is about your children. It shows you are insecure about your beliefs and you want to become more secure about them by forcing your children to believe it's true. Notice how I use the word forcing. None of these children want this to be forced on them. They aren't giving you permission to tell them what to believe. People may think their child was born a Christian or an Islam or whatever but this is simply not true. These children were born without beliefs of what this world is about. This also shows a lot about your belief system if you do this. If your beliefs were true, why wouldn't you lead your children on an endless quest for truth instead of telling them what to believe.

Civics

Civics are the rights and duties of citizenship. The main problem that I find with civics is that people feel entitled to do lots of things they think they are allowed to do. For example, when we find someone's child acting in the wrong and we try to teach them how to be better people for the rest of their life, the parents feel entitled to be the only ones that are allowed to teach their children things. This also causes a problem with indoctrination. Since the parents think they are the only ones allowed to teach their children, they can teach their children only the views they think are correct causing their children to not be open-minded. You can see this very often in religious groups and cults. To spread the doctrine of the religion, the adults who believe in the doctrine convince their children that the doctrine is the absolute truth. This causes the religion to be passed on but causes the children to be close-minded. This has a somewhat implication that religion is false because if it were true the parents would lead their children on a never ending quest for truth.
Back to the topic of civics, it is a societies duty to try to make our world a better place and improve the living circumstances of our offspring. We should be nice to others like we would want them to be nice to us. The sooner we understand that, the sooner our world will reach utopia.

Integration

Having finished the autobiography of Malcolm X, my views on integration has changed a little bit. I believe if none of us were racist or brought up as racist, integration would work perfectly because everyone would treat each other by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. This sadly is not true. Racism still exists to this day even though many people gave their lives to end racism. Malcolm X made very good points when defending segregation. He understands that since this racism exists, there is no other way to let everyone get what they want then to little every black return to Africa and keep all the whites in America because black people will never really be considered as Americans. I think the problem is this is that the best outcome for our problem would be to integrate and for everyone to be family but this problem will not be fixed for any time in the near future. So although this is the best solution, Malcolm X understood that the only solution would be to segregate.