Watch: These Little Grads Will Make Your Day With ‘Hey Black Child’

Congratulations are in order for the 2017 graduating kindergarten class at the Academy of Knowledge in Miami. The adorable kids were tasked with reciting the iconic poem “Hey Black Child” by Useni Eugene Perkins, and it’s everything you want it to be. Suggested Reading America’s Birth Rate Is Shifting Toward a Minority Majority and Now…

Congratulations are in order for the 2017 graduating kindergarten class at the Academy of Knowledge in Miami. The adorable kids were tasked with reciting the iconic poem “Hey Black Child” by Useni Eugene Perkins, and it’s everything you want it to be.

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Check out the cuties in the video above:

Hey Black ChildDo you know who you areWho you really areDo you know you can beWhat you want to beIf you try to beWhat you can be

Hey Black ChildDo you know where you are goingWhere you’re really goingDo you know you can learnWhat you want to learnIf you try to learnWhat you can learn

Hey Black ChildDo you know you are strongI mean really strongDo you know you can doWhat you want to doIf you try to doWhat you can do

Hey Black ChildBe what you can beLearn what you must learnDo what you can doAnd tomorrow your nationWill be what you want it to be

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