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A professor historian, scholar New York Times bestselling author of how to be an anti racist and anti racist baby is a New York Knicks fan. Cant be good at everything. And also a girl dad. Doctor a bram x candy kit to have you on the street. Lovely to have you here. Were going to be talking about your work, the challenges of spreading anti racism and the tools you used to do that. Im going to start with a brand new book called magnolia flour, which is a Childrens Book, which says so much, but also tells a beautiful story. How would you describe it . Well, let me thank you so much for having me on this. This is a love story like magnolia flowers is about an afro indigenous girl in florida who is prevented from from, from love in and finds a way to, to, to fall in love and maintain her love. But its also a story about nature that the love story is told from a mighty river to a dancing brook. And an and magnolias parents one fled the trail of tears when native people were forced off their land. And another fled slavery. And so theres this historical element as well, in this love story. Theres so much in the book if you go a little bit deeper. I remember when i was reading kits books and when i re read them as an adult, i realized that there was so much vina phobia and jingo estate behavior that i hadnt noticed as a child. But when i read back as an adult, i was horrified. So what we give a young stick to read is going to be so formative. So what are the lessons that i little one is not going to notice immediately, but when they grow older, its going to impact how they see the wild. I think whats striking about magnolia flower is this girl grows up in whats called a maroon community. These are, were communities during the em, slaven era where black and native people who fled slavery, or even settler coils em informed their own sort of these islands of free gum within this best sort of seas of slavery. And you would think during these arrows of enslaved men and, and subtler coil is on that everything was, was pain and bad people did not find love. But what you find in magnolia flowers, despite the pain and the violence. Magnolia flower finds love and instead love that actually generates the resistance of people to those ah, harmful and oppressive conditions. I am going to be talking to thought to if ram x kennedy about his work, his writing, his approach to anti racism. And you could be part of that conversation as well, where on ye cheap where i live right now . The Comment Section is, are right here for you to jump into and be part of todays show. And i am looking at some of the books that you have written and for young people thats not human magnolia flower. But if we go back free, some of the other work good night racism, how to raise an anti racist stamps. The kates racism and to racism and you and it goes on and on. If you live in america, you realize that these titles might be triggering for some americans, and they get upset that with young people and without she anybody. That there is a way to look at the world that says we can do better. We dont have to behave like this to each other because we look different. How do you cope with that push back to what you do. I think unfortunately, the pushback is, is based on an idea thats been disproven. And, and that idea that im talking about is, is that young kids dont seek color, dont see, race arent thinking better or worse about people because of the color of their skin, but theyre innocent in that way. And unfortunately, thats just not true. Scholars have consistently documented all over the world that our kids as early as 3 and 4 years old, or already attaching behavior to skin color, already thinking that people have more because they are more. And so what are we doing to counteract those ideas and m m . Thats one of the reasons why i am specifically writing for children because i want every child to know that there is nothing right or wrong about them because of the color of their skin. And if there is any quality, its not because a particular group is superior or inferior. I want every child to be able to see their skin color as part of the, the human rainbow and, and be able to see its beauty just as they see. The beauty of humanity only sights tracy back, so shes an old fat and a past that. And she made a comment about how you make it easier the parents to talk to their children about racism isnt i mean, dr. Kennedys work has shaped the teaching of our children through the recent movement of parents willingness to unlearn and re learn. Dr. Katys work as a spy appears to be more reflective and thought, oh about their own live experiences and how those experiences really influenced the way that they show up his parents. Many parents are more open to have the hard dialogue about being anti racist. And to have those dialogues with their children, very different from the way that they were raised with their own parents. Wow, and indeed thats precisely what im seeking and striving to do it. And if anything i, im trying to encourage parents and give them the tools to recognize that just as its important for us to, to actively teach our kids, to be nice to share, to actively teach our kids about stranger danger, to actively teach our kids to look both ways before they cross the street, its also important to teach our kids to, to be anti racist and that its actually protective for them to know and understand racial be quality. So that when i do years, try to convince them. Otherwise, they can say no, thats wrong. I know were all equals compensation. Unusual. That was sad. What anna is thinking and she says its very my eve to think that kids wont reflect their parents prejudice or their environmental prejudice. One example, if you say, i know weve all heard little children coming out with things you think, well, we know they had that from that parents. What if you have, what is the scene where i can remember my, even my, my partner, my, my wife city, her, she, she tells a story when she was about 15 years old. And she grew up in albany, georgia, and southwest georgia. And she was walking a long day in area looking for her dog. And she looks up at a balcony area and sees a child its about 2 or 3 years old. And my child is glaring at her in that child calls her the n word. And, and, and so, and, and, and so, and course i wish we could all figure out where that child not only heard the word, but heard who to say it to. And im only heard who to say it to, but say it in a mean way. I mean, and our children are soaking up what were doing or saying thats why its important for us to be diligent about how were modeling our in our certainly what were teaching to see a use is a phrase. The caea is unusual. Shes watching us right now. She is, is a phrase which has got an, a lot of debate and its discussion around this phrase that we see as, as children ah, colorblind. Well, unfortunately, scholars have shown that theres earliest 3 years old. Our kids have what one scholar called in a dont like concept of a brace. Other scholars have found that for instance, in the United States, our kids are attaching when they went there attaching sort of darker skin to ugliness, to its honesty to other behavioral traits. Ah, by 5 years old. Oh, even more kids are doing so. So unfortunately, even though we like to think of our kids as colorblind, scholars and scientists have consistently shown that thats just not true. Yeah, even little brown and, and black children see brown and black as a bad thing. Oh hey, texture is a bad thing and that tiny little tinys yeah. You have parents who of brown and black children who will tell you about that day when their child came home and said, i want to be white or their child co came home and said, i want blue eyes or their child came home and said, i wish my here was straighter. Thats happening right now. And those kids are 345 years old. All right, so what do we do about this . Well, we actually have to counteract these are, these are ideas like i think weve been misled into believing that a racist ideas. Just too complex. Yeah. For our kids to understand. But you know, an idea dark is ugly. Thats a very simple idea that even a 2 or 3 year old can understand. So we have to actively teach our child ah bet dark in light or beautiful. Because unfortunately they are going to hear a different idea we want. The 1st idea that they hear is to is to be that anti racist idea. Donald l calling for visiting professor at loyola university. And he, he told me that the complexity of the societies that we live in and how do we even tackle that hugeness of racism that surrounds us. Not getting the u. S, but i am many parts of the well, this is what he told us area. Good question for you to day as far as how you conceptualize her braces thought and how you suggested. Since we all have races sauce, there were all close that somehow and the only terms of interpersonal air vigil races. But in the system of racism, bastrop crossed millions upon millions of people over the last half of ammonia. So how do we fight systemic racism . Not just individual racism, but systemic racism when, how, when were all compose them. Something that really has an impact mostly on people who are not might thats the, the, the, the very question that i was actually asking myself. And indeed people were, were asking me what, which ultimately led me to really begin to emphasize to, to people over the world. That we have to think about how we can be anti racist. What that means is, instead of thinking about ok, i dont want to be racist. We should start actively thinking about how we can be anti races. What i mean by that is, how can we go about internalizing ideas of racial equality . How can we go about recognizing that the racial groups, despite the ways in which they may look different or even different ethnic groups that are racialized, may practice different cultures . How can we see difference as equals . How can we begin to see the problem is bad rules as opposed to bad people . This is enough taken an affirmative stance to begin to understand and internalize racially quality in beginning to understand that inequity is the result of, of Structural Racism which then will allow us to focus on eliminating structural rakes racism as opposed to spending so much time looking down at different groups of people, is this an individual i a thinking is, is how it i set out my day and i, i approach my day in this way. This is my view point on the world to make sure that im being anti racist. Or is this something that we have to ask of politicians and governments and School Buddies . Actually think its a bulk, i think if we as individuals are being anti racist, then were gonna value people in positions of power who are being anti racist because for instance, if, if, if we are being anti racist and we dont look upon black and brown kids as intellectually inferior and we see black and brown kids are not receiving as much resources as lets say white kids. Were going to see that as a problem. And then the next step is going to be like were going to start asking people in the, on the school board and politicians and others. Why this and equity and resources. So in a way, because were, you, as individuals are being anti racist, were going to compel people in positions of power are tend to be anti racist to all. Welcome out. And he said he, some of the thoughts that happening online. And some people are saying that if you are calling out racism you yourself a racist, i am sure thats not the 1st time that youve had that. What is the difference . Thats equivalent to saying that a that a physician who has been trained to diagnose cancer and has utilized a whole bunch of diagnostic tools to be able to clinically diagnose cancer that that when they then go about diagnosing cancer, as, as a physician did with me because i had cancer that somehow they had cancer. No, i think unfortunately, we dont 1st recognize that racism exists nor do we recognize that there are people who are skilled in, trained in identifying and describing in diagnosing indeed racism. And. And so i think that there are, there are people who, who imagine that racism doesnt exist and that the real racists are those who are essentially, ah, speaking about something that doesnt exist. But unfortunately, when you look out at all a b inequities and disparities and our societies, thats proof of racism. They cant sass, as hes watching this conversation, are we still going to give power to the media . And can you on and on talking about race . It isnt a race issue in all caps. Its quite humbly, an educational matter. The media will continue to split us that blaming the messenger. Well, i think that its actually both and in other words, so there are people who right now believes that lets say nations are asked nations in africa disproportionately impoverished because theres something wrong with with african people. Ah, that nations in europe disproportionately wealthier because theres something superior about our people in europe. And they believe that because of the media because of education because of what they have been told over the course of their life. And, and of course, we have to counteract that, we have to make sure that people recognize that europeans are not indeed superior to africans. And they say right, sent to question t just a few hours ago. And she wanted to ask, well, where do we go . What is the point of the work that we do if we are working towards anti racism . His yes. The only thing wrong with black people is that we think something is wrong with black people. Back to candy. Thank you for your service. That quote, was a quote from your book stant, from the beginning that i used in a 2020 came out. Do come to you today through the lens of a black mother who was an educator rating to joyful, peaceful, brilliant, powerful black children. When you think about your work and becoming a anti races, do you see that as the destination . Or do you see that as an indicator towards the path of becoming pro black or for black children in all aspects of the work that we do . Actually i see it as, as a way station, i dont necessarily see being anti racist as, as the destination. I see it is almost a journey and what im hoping is as, as people move along that path, i guess black people strive to be anti racist. The more they are anti racist, the more they will value themselves, the more they will value black people, the more they will fight for the liberation of black people. And the more they will fight for the liberation of human kind. Knowing that if they liberate humanity, theyll liberate black people. You know, that is, that is the hope and, and indeed im, im thankful for, for, for educators like, you know, who are on this journey. I am thinking about where we are in the United States right now. Im sitting in washington dc. Im thinking about the u. S. And how in the past few months, the past year books have been a Battle Ground books with ideas, books about anti racism, books about being inclusive for all different kinds of children or different kinds of people and on the list of banned books. You your books papa quite regularly in january out as you did this report. I am, im just intrigued by the last comment. Youre here in this report and just bounce off the back of the current atmosphere within which you are working. Lets take a look at the report festival. A battle is waging at School Boards across the United States. Sure, weve got hundreds of people out there that would like to see those books before we burnham books deemed to be sewing division in the classroom by republican control. Boards are being reviewed by authorities, some are being removed from the shelves. I dont know that any advocate has been working on tracking or paying attention to the freedom to rea