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Looking for some concrete tools to proactively talk about race with the young people in your lives? Join Raising Race Conscious Children for our first webinar of the 2018-19 school-year. https://wp.me/p5vMEo-Ec
Raising Race Conscious Children shared MTV Decoded's video.
Food for thought regarding conversations with the young people in your lives about wealth and the racial disparity: https://www.facebook.com/6476528946/posts/10155730952923947/
Out of 536 billionaires in the USA, only 3 are black. Why the stark racial divide? Well it's complicated, but it turns out our history of racism has a lot to do... with it. From segregated schools that receive less funding in property taxes, to the history of redlining black homeowners, to the long history of slavery, oppression, and segregation, white families were accumulating wealth. That "old money" has provided the capital for the modern-day billionaires, and even average-income white families, to stay significantly ahead of black Americans. So how can we fix the wealth divide in America? Franchesca "Chescaleigh" Ramsey addresses this in this week's Season 2 throwback episode of MTV Decoded.
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Written by Ben O'Keefe @benjaminokeefe
SOURCES:
America is the richest, and most unequal, country
http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/
Bernie Sanders, in Madison, claims top 0.1% of Americans have almost as much wealth as bottom 90%
https://www.politifact.com/…/bernie-sanders-madison-claims…/
Here Are The States With The Most Billionaires
https://www.forbes.com/…/here-are-the-states-with-the-mos…/…
U.S. Education: Still Separate and Unequal
https://www.usnews.com/…/us-education-still-separate-and-un…
How Do We Fund Our Schools?
http://www.pbs.org/…/finance-how-do-we-fund-our-schools/197/
The Racial Wealth Gap: Why A Typical White Household Has 16 Times The Wealth Of A Black One
https://www.forbes.com/…/the-racial-wealth-gap-why-a-typi…/…
"My daughter, who’s 8 now, has been called 'the maid' by her white classmates."
https://www.nytimes.com/…/sunday/trump-racism-black-childre…
Want to talk about structural racism with the young people in your lives? Here's a concrete example of how (self-interested) policy decisions impact people today.
"In the 1950s, Guatemala attempted to end exploitative labor practices and give land to Mayan Indians in the highlands. The move, according to now-unclassified CIA documents, threatened US interests like the United Fruit Company, which controlled a good portion of land in Guatemala. But instead of citing economic factors, many in the US cried “communism,” saying the labor reforms were a threat to democracy."
#FamiliesBelongTogether
https://www.gofundme.com/yeni-gonzalez-support-team
http://www.raceconscious.org/20…/…/families-belong-together/
Action: https://standforkids.net/
What are folks in Raising Race Conscious Children's community doing re: conversation/action with their children around this topic? Please share on this thread.
https://strivingparent.com/…/heartbreak-and-hope-families-…/
Check out this letter to parents about talking about race: "Lastly, we touched on how we still have laws and practices that are unfair today (some based on skin color or gender, as examples). And some people still believe that white/peach skin are the best."
Http://www.raceconscious.org/…/talking-race-importance-par…/
New children's book: https://www.ajc.com/…/new-children-…/dAFCBv6y7Rtaep0Gyt01XP/
Valuable book list: http://coloursofus.com/…/asian-multicultural-childrens-boo…/
Today is the day to talk to the children in your lives about the value of speaking Spanish (or another language): http://www.raceconscious.org/…/are-you-speaking-spanish-ho…/
Here's to a justice-seeking mother's day!
Join Raising Race Conscious Children on June 24th to practice ways to integrate proactive race talk into your children's lives.
http://www.raceconscious.org/…/join-raising-race-conscious…/
