Understanding racism is somewhat complex; teaching about racism is very complex

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22464746/critical-race-theory-anti-racism-jarvis-givens

A kid is bound to ask (or, at least, wonder): Why would one group of people enslave another group of people?

The complexity arises from an attempt to deal with that question.

There is a kind of straightforward answer: People want Others to do the odious labor.

But then you have to deal with: Why is there so much in the way of odious labor?

I think only those who recognize the centrality and broad implications of that question can provide the full context for teaching about the issue.

(For example: The South African apartheid system avoided direct enslavement, but was only a step removed from it. Relatedly, what right-wing Israelis want now is to wind up with something similar and thus have the Palestinian Others available to do the shit work.)