In wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests, conversations about race in America have a new urgency. Here's how Black parents are having 'the talk' with their children today.
The Jernigan-Noesi family, the Roper Nedd family, and the Ford family talk about the conversations they're having with their kids about racism, social justice, and having hope for the future.toggle captionThe Jernigan-Noesi family, the Roper Nedd family, and the Ford family talk about the conversations they're having with their kids about racism, social justice, and having hope for the future.
She says she and her husband's message to their children right now is hopeful, despite their own misgivings about the slow pace of progress."This is the time for us to move forward," she says."This is the time to change."When Chris and Eriade Williams decided to take their children to participate in peaceful protests near their home in Silver Spring, Md., their daughter Marley, 9, told them she was scared.
The Williams say they have a sense of relief that, after George Floyd's brutal killing, the whole nation began discussing police violence and racism. It means, they said, that as parents"we are the ones who can explain all this to our kids and that their friends in school will have a similar baseline of experience now to understand these issues better.
They try to strike a balance, Barbara says, between exposing their children to the reality of racism while instilling confidence in them as individuals."We grew up and understood that everything in life wasn't going to be fair; so we want to raise the children with a sense of reality, but we don't want to poison them and we don't want them to be blindsided by anything either.
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