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How to Talk to Young Kids About Race Photo: Rawpixel.com (Shutterstock) If recent history has taught parents especially white parents anything, it’s that we need to talk with our kids more often and more in-depth about race. (I say “especially white parents” because parents of color have always talked to their kids about race.) But sometimes parents aren’t sure how, or when, to get started. Advertisement For many white parents, it can feel easier to switch off the news cycle and avoid talking about race with kids, instead encouraging them to just be nice to everyone. Some even chirp, “We don’t see color!” a statement that’s both ridiculous if you have working eyeballs, and hurtful to people of color. Margaret e Jacobsen, a Black parent raising two mixed-race children, hears remarks like this all the time in their family’s predominately white neighborhood. In 2017, Jacobsen wrote for Romper about why it’s so damaging: ....
Watching Kamala Harris sworn in as our country’s first female vice president (not to mention our first vice president of colour) last week felt like ....