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Need more practice on how to use proactive, race conscious language with children in your lives? Join us for our interactive workshop/webinar on April 19th.
"...when a white girl and her mother in the book discuss the shooting, it leads to insights about patterns of injustice, and how she can insist on fair treatment for all kids. Meanwhile, when a black father shares his anger about racist behavior, he tells his son: 'I'm mad that we're still treated poorly sometimes, but I can use my anger to make things better. Black people have a lot of power if we work together to make changes.'"
https://mashable.com/…/how-to-talk-about-race-with-your-c…/…
Not just for teachers! https://rethinkingschools.org/…/ti…/teaching-for-black-lives
Raising Race Conscious Children shared NowThis Her's video.
Listen to this.
Everyone needs to hear 11-year-old Naomi Wadler's powerful message about Black women in the U.S.
Raising Race Conscious Children shared AJ+'s video.
The power of recognizing our own biases:
A white man called C-SPAN to confess his fear of black people – and ask for advice on how to change.
Raising Race Conscious Children shared Op-Docs's episode.
Parents reveal their struggles with telling their black sons that they may be targets of racial profiling by the police.
Raising Race Conscious Children shared a link.
"Equip your children with facts about the racist history of our society and ongoing racism, so black boys don’t blame themselves for any unfair treatment they receive. Research has shown that youth who are aware of racial discrimination and whose parents have prepared them tend to be less negatively affected when it happens.
When teaching children about racism, it also is incredibly important to highlight all of the ways in which blacks have resisted mistreatment and persisted in the face of adversity. "
Thrilled to have been re-published by the The Good Men Project: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-co…/white-as-right-kvnw/
Paraphrase of what we often talk about in our workshops at Raising Race Conscious Children: "'When we stay silent about (race), we leave children to make their own assumptions and they won’t necessarily make the right ones.' ...which can start happening fast because by 4 or 5 years old, kids could start to pick a friend based off skin color and expressing prejudice."
http://wlns.com/…/its-never-too-early-to-talk-race-with-yo…/
Food for thought/conversation-prompt for upper-elementary aged children: http://atlantablackstar.com/…/social-pressure-black-restau…/
Raising Race Conscious Children shared a memory.
At Raising Race Conscious Children we often talk about helping children be critical consumers of media (and advertising)...
When we name race explicitly, we particularly have to talk explicitly about Whiteness...
On why it is so powerful to re-frame our narrative about the world’s inequities with children in terms of fairness/unfairness: “If the system is fair, why am I seeing that everybody who has brown skin is in this kind of job? You’re having to think about that … like you’re not as good, or your social group isn’t as good.”
