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Sunday, September 23rd, 8 PM EST Interactive Workshop/Webinar: NOTE: Registration for this webinar will close one week prior on Sunday, September 16th. We often avoid talking about race with our young children but, whether we like it or not, children notice...
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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/

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Why is the 1% So White?
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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

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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…/…

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She has been rejected by classmates because of her race and called “the maid.” Given the messages from the White House, I’m not surprised.
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While you are celebrating July 4th with your children...food for thought re: conversation possibilities!

Political action is part of the holiday tradition, too.
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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.
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by Sachi Feris Inspired by Stand for Kids and A Striving Parent, I asked my six-year-old daughter and two-and-a-half year old son whether they might like to make rice krispie treats to raise money for immigrant children who have been separated...
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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.
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I took a week off of Facebook in an attempt to be fully present with my family while we were on vacation. When I logged back on, I was flooded with the horrifying news about families being separate…
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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…/

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Asian Multicultural Children's Books - Elementary School; Diverse Children's Books featuring Asian & Asian American children and families. Ages 5 to 10.
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“Children are the ways that the world begins again and again.” - June Jordan, The Creative Spirit and Children’s Literature (1977) Our daughter, Sophia, doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do when she becomes an adult—we keep telling her that circus contortionists aren't necessarily in ...
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Join Raising Race Conscious Children on June 24th to practice ways to integrate proactive race talk into your children's lives.
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Sunday, June 24th, 8 PM EST Interactive Workshop/Webinar: NOTE: Registration for this webinar will close one week prior on Sunday, June 17th. We often avoid talking about race with our young children but, whether we like it or not, children notice...
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