(Consider this not so much a blog post as a shameless plug from the great blogosphere beyond …)
Just released from New Demographic and Anti-Racist Parent, How to Be an Anti-Racist Parent: Real-Life Parents Share Real-Life Tips features advice from many members of the ARP community, including Shawn Fink, Jae Ran Kim, Nina Birnbaum, Cloudscome, Meera Bowman Johnson, Margie Perscheid, Mike Lee, Susan Lyons-Joell, and Cynthia Bostwick.
Here is an excerpt:
You can’t protect your children from racism. You need to be able to show them how ugly racism is, or they won’t be able to recognize it for themselves. If your children are kids of color, they’ll need to have survival skills – verbal, intellectual, and physical. And these survival skills aren’t just about driving while Black or confronting skinheads – your kids will need to know how to survive the racism embedded in our educational, economic, judicial and occupational institutions.
–Jae Ran Kim
Download it, read it, and pass it on.
Thank you so much for helping me spread the word, Ji In!
um, reading my mind?
i wish this kind of information and dialog was more available when i was growing up. i can’t imagine how differently my life would have been and how i would have seen myself. i guess improvements are made by learning from past mistakes.
Thanks for passing this along! I’m not planning to be a parent for many years, but it’s in the back of my mind.