'How do you explain to two bright-eyed, multiracial kids who live pretty charmed lives that there was a time in this country where people who look like Daddy would have been shackled and working for people who look like Mommy?'
. His murder and the resulting protests and discussions happening across the world forced us to have some really honest conversations about how we were going to talk to our children about matters of race. My son is seven; my daughter is five. They’re still a bit young to haveTwo weeks ago, we were giving my son a bath when he started singing a song. It starts as a hum, and then he sang.
My son and I have spent some time talking about civil rights and the 1960s and the marches for justice and equality, and what America was like two generations ago. I’ve shown him the “I Have a Dream” speech and introduced him to the Letter from Birmingham Jail.
These are the conversations my wife and I have had, but I don’t think they’re conversations a lot of folks think about until they have children. There are a lot of people in this country who are dealing with this same dynamic — a parent of one race and a parent of another race.
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