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047: Black Lives Matter

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Episode 047: Black Lives Matter, How to be Anti-Racist, How to Talk to Your Kids about BLM
00:20 Black Lives Matter Movement
02:00 How NOT to raise racist kids
  • Allison and Kwu both have young kids, so conversations are slightly different
  • Gender inequality talks
  • Explaining to kids how and why people are treated differently in different areas
  • Changing the language in the house: racism, violence, hate
    • 07:50 Exposing pictures, graphics and videos to your children, no matter the age. What's appropriate?
    • Protesters getting arrested
    • Bail rates vary depending on race
    • Children are very intuitive and understand more than we think
      • 11:30 How to talk to young kids about BLM
      • Bi-racial and how they are often judged by their outer appearance
      • Comfortability amongst couples and how to lean into these conversations with their children
        • 17:40 Rallies, protests and how to support
        • Different forms of support during BLM
        • COVID is still relevant
        • Amplifying POC voices
        • Daily threads on educational resources, city statuses, anti-racism resources, action items
          • 25:10 How can we make our world better together
          • Opening the conversation about anti-racism with friends, family, community members
          • Focusing on the growth of our children to be anti-racist
            • 28:45 Genius / Fail moments
            • Allison’s son struggles with life after the virus as he starts to jump on their nerves from a relaxed approach at the beginning of quarantine #fail
            • KWu focuses on finding a chinese immersion school for her son but it he jumps into the wrong level and doesn’t understand much and is a bit of a mess from lunch right before #fail
              • RESOURCES: BLM and how to talk to you kids about racism

              Anti-Racism Resources

              Black Lives Matter for Families
              Webinars for Anti-Racism
              WOKE Kindergarten
              How to Talk to Your Kids About Racism
              Books on Social Justice for Young Readers
              Raising Race Conscious Children
              Talking About Race: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

              BOOKS: These are books that we found to be helpful in unlearning old beliefs and learning more about modern day racism.

              A Kids Book About Racism

              So You Want To Talk About Race
              How to Be an Antiracist
              The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
              White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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              Allison McMillan

              Katherin Wu

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