White parents: what are you teaching your white preschool age children about racism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was really struck by the discussion about what we teach children in the book White Fragility, especially when it comes to ideas like “racism is just about bad individuals“ or “we don’t see color.” I’ve started talking to my 4 year old very explicitly about black people specifically and trying to introduce ideas about systemic unfairness. I know that sounds a little ridiculous for a 4 year old but when I discussed a system where his younger sister doesn’t get timeouts for doing the same stuff he does he understood pretty quickly.

We live in a racist country. We are swimming in racist culture. It is the very air we breathe, so we (whites) don’t notice it. Our kids are learning about race the minute they’re born and if you want to be the one doing the teaching you can’t wait for them to bring it up. This takes work, work on yourself first and foremost so you can be a good teacher. It is not easy or just something you do once in January and then move on.

This is the least racist country in the world. A fact. Whites are the least racist race in the world. Go to China and see how they feel about black Americans. There's some racism. How Japanese feel about Chinese. How White South Americans feel about natives. How hispanics feel about blacks -- you don't want to go down that rabbit hole if you're afraid of truth. How any black African tribe feels about any other black African tribe. Indians and Muslims. Muslims and ANYBODY. Whites in America who continue to let in a million a year non-whites and have our culture diluted and destroyed willingly, we're racist...it's all so absurd. (((We))) lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was really struck by the discussion about what we teach children in the book White Fragility, especially when it comes to ideas like “racism is just about bad individuals“ or “we don’t see color.” I’ve started talking to my 4 year old very explicitly about black people specifically and trying to introduce ideas about systemic unfairness. I know that sounds a little ridiculous for a 4 year old but when I discussed a system where his younger sister doesn’t get timeouts for doing the same stuff he does he understood pretty quickly.

We live in a racist country. We are swimming in racist culture. It is the very air we breathe, so we (whites) don’t notice it. Our kids are learning about race the minute they’re born and if you want to be the one doing the teaching you can’t wait for them to bring it up. This takes work, work on yourself first and foremost so you can be a good teacher. It is not easy or just something you do once in January and then move on.

This is the least racist country in the world. A fact. Whites are the least racist race in the world. Go to China and see how they feel about black Americans. There's some racism. How Japanese feel about Chinese. How White South Americans feel about natives. How hispanics feel about blacks -- you don't want to go down that rabbit hole if you're afraid of truth. How any black African tribe feels about any other black African tribe. Indians and Muslims. Muslims and ANYBODY. Whites in America who continue to let in a million a year non-whites and have our culture diluted and destroyed willingly, we're racist...it's all so absurd. (((We))) lol

This is the least racist country in the world. A fact. Whites are the least racist race in the world. Go to China and see how they feel about black Americans. There's some racism. How Japanese feel about Chinese. How White South Americans feel about natives. How hispanics feel about blacks -- you don't want to go down that rabbit hole if you're afraid of truth. How any black African tribe feels about any other black African tribe. Indians and Muslims. Muslims and ANYBODY. Whites in America who continue to let in a million a year non-whites and have our culture diluted and destroyed willingly, we're racist...it's all so absurd. (((We))) lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was really struck by the discussion about what we teach children in the book White Fragility, especially when it comes to ideas like “racism is just about bad individuals“ or “we don’t see color.” I’ve started talking to my 4 year old very explicitly about black people specifically and trying to introduce ideas about systemic unfairness. I know that sounds a little ridiculous for a 4 year old but when I discussed a system where his younger sister doesn’t get timeouts for doing the same stuff he does he understood pretty quickly.

We live in a racist country. We are swimming in racist culture. It is the very air we breathe, so we (whites) don’t notice it. Our kids are learning about race the minute they’re born and if you want to be the one doing the teaching you can’t wait for them to bring it up. This takes work, work on yourself first and foremost so you can be a good teacher. It is not easy or just something you do once in January and then move on.

This is the least racist country in the world. A fact. Whites are the least racist race in the world. Go to China and see how they feel about black Americans. There's some racism. How Japanese feel about Chinese. How White South Americans feel about natives. How hispanics feel about blacks -- you don't want to go down that rabbit hole if you're afraid of truth. How any black African tribe feels about any other black African tribe. Indians and Muslims. Muslims and ANYBODY. Whites in America who continue to let in a million a year non-whites and have our culture diluted and destroyed willingly, we're racist...it's all so absurd. (((We))) lol

This is the least racist country in the world. A fact. Whites are the least racist race in the world. Go to China and see how they feel about black Americans. There's some racism. How Japanese feel about Chinese. How White South Americans feel about natives. How hispanics feel about blacks -- you don't want to go down that rabbit hole if you're afraid of truth. How any black African tribe feels about any other black African tribe. Indians and Muslims. Muslims and ANYBODY. Whites in America who continue to let in a million a year non-whites and have our culture diluted and destroyed willingly, we're racist...it's all so absurd. (((We))) lol

This is the least racist country in the world. A fact. Whites are the least racist race in the world. Go to China and see how they feel about black Americans. There's some racism. How Japanese feel about Chinese. How White South Americans feel about natives. How hispanics feel about blacks -- you don't want to go down that rabbit hole if you're afraid of truth. How any black African tribe feels about any other black African tribe. Indians and Muslims. Muslims and ANYBODY. Whites in America who continue to let in a million a year non-whites and have our culture diluted and destroyed willingly, we're racist...it's all so absurd. (((We))) lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was really struck by the discussion about what we teach children in the book White Fragility, especially when it comes to ideas like “racism is just about bad individuals“ or “we don’t see color.” I’ve started talking to my 4 year old very explicitly about black people specifically and trying to introduce ideas about systemic unfairness. I know that sounds a little ridiculous for a 4 year old but when I discussed a system where his younger sister doesn’t get timeouts for doing the same stuff he does he understood pretty quickly.

We live in a racist country. We are swimming in racist culture. It is the very air we breathe, so we (whites) don’t notice it. Our kids are learning about race the minute they’re born and if you want to be the one doing the teaching you can’t wait for them to bring it up. This takes work, work on yourself first and foremost so you can be a good teacher. It is not easy or just something you do once in January and then move on.

Thank you for realizing that kids that age CAN understand these issues!