How to talk to your kids about White Privilege - ABC

As two Atlanta police officers face numerous, well deserved charges for murdering a black man that was doing nothing more than sleeping in his car....it’s important to remember to accept white privilege as a reality and to teach your kids about it.

This story was posted by ABC Tampa this morning.


Some bullet points:

Most adults are too stupid to understand it:

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Yet teaching our kids about concepts like white privilege can be daunting. It’s not a concept that even adults can always grasp, so we might balk at confronting this topic with our children.

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Being uncomfortable with this topic is evidence of white privilege.

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Black parents don’t have the luxury of not discussing white privilege with their children. Refusing to discuss white privilege with our children because it makes us uncomfortable is in and of itself a white privilege.

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Whites never suffer because of their skin color.

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It does not mean we haven’t suffered — but it does mean our skin color will never be a source of our suffering.

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Even if you earned it, it really happened because you are white.

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As a story at Teaching Tolerance notes, “white privilege is not the assumption that everything a white person has accomplished is unearned; most white people who have reached a high level of success worked extremely hard to get there. Instead, white privilege should be viewed as a built-in advantage, separate from one’s level of income or effort.”

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Whites are born with everything they need. Blacks are not:

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Get two backpacks. Fill one with snacks, books, coloring pencils, paper, a flashlight, a bottle of water, and maybe even a stuffed animal or blankie. Leave the other backpack empty. Explain to your children that a white person in this country begins life with the filled backpack

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Not allocating 50% of shelf space to products used exclusively by 16% or the population is evidence of white privilege:

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For example, when shopping in the beauty aisle, we might point out the plethora of white hair care products, whereas Black hair care products are often shoved into one small corner, and just a few options are available

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Definitely bring race politics into your home and talk about it at dinner.

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The Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites by Dr. John Raible is another great way to help us continue to deepen our conversation about white privilege with our kids. We can hang it on our fridge as a visual reminder that could help spark conversations with our kids around the dinner table.

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