Tv or movies with non white heroes for a 5 year old boy?

[Anonymous]

Here's some of the research included in Bryson's book:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/09/04/see-baby-discriminate.html

It's so damn fascinating, and I do hope that people take the time to read it, and then take the time to talk to their children about race, instead of being "colorblind" and not discussing differences, even if those differences are as simple as I am white (or pinkish) and he is brownish, and she is reddish, and he is blackish, and that we are ALL equal, no matter our gender, ethnicity, nationality, or color of our skin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:how about you just watch good tv and not worry about stupid labels like "race"?

Colorblind.

Whites don't have to be aware of race, like men don't have to be aware of gender, like straights don't have to be aware of sexual orientation. You're an idiot.

sad you are teaching kids to be so racist. very sad.

yes, my multiracial children with their multiracial mother are racist. and you are colorblind and an idiot.

so sad that you even label your own wife and kids this way. lets see, one of their grandparents is asian, one is african. that makes then a quadroon? you belong in the 1930s. do people actually still think this way in 2011? pathetic.

I am the multiracial mother, dumbass. You just assumed that I was white and male- like you assume everyone who is not otherwise labeled is. you can't help it- most people don't bother to think (like yourself). glad that other posters have the patience to outline the academic reasoning that i'm to tired of explaining to idiots like you.

Sorry to hijack the thread, OP. Unfortunately, I have no contributions to make- kids are too young for TV and there are not enough black characters in the mainstream for me to have picked up by osmosis.

ROFL. I love it when idiots prove their own point.

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Anonymous wrote:how about you just watch good tv and not worry about stupid labels like "race"?

Colorblind.

Whites don't have to be aware of race, like men don't have to be aware of gender, like straights don't have to be aware of sexual orientation. You're an idiot.

sad you are teaching kids to be so racist. very sad.

yes, my multiracial children with their multiracial mother are racist. and you are colorblind and an idiot.

so sad that you even label your own wife and kids this way. lets see, one of their grandparents is asian, one is african. that makes then a quadroon? you belong in the 1930s. do people actually still think this way in 2011? pathetic.

I am the multiracial mother, dumbass. You just assumed that I was white and male- like you assume everyone who is not otherwise labeled is. you can't help it- most people don't bother to think (like yourself). glad that other posters have the patience to outline the academic reasoning that i'm to tired of explaining to idiots like you.

Sorry to hijack the thread, OP. Unfortunately, I have no contributions to make- kids are too young for TV and there are not enough black characters in the mainstream for me to have picked up by osmosis.

nice to refer to yourself in the third person.

[Anonymous]

OP here again. Thanks again for the suggestions. I probably shouldn't even mention this, but one reason I wanted suggestions
was that my son made a racist comment. He said "dark skinned people are the bad guys, and light skinned ones are
the good ones". (We are white.) I addressed that in the moment, and I will continue to do so if it comes up again. I'm also addressing it by
reading books (Ann Cameron most recently, btw her books are excellent). But I realized that most of the TV he watches has only white characters. We are
posted to Austalia and media is less diverse here. As it happens his preschool class is half Asian (lots of different ethnic groups), as is his best friend, so I have no idea where that comment came from. And while I'd love to live in a color blind society that's not the reality he (or I) live in.

Thanks for the reference to Nurture Shock. I read it a while back but I don't recall that part. I'll go look it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just watched The Golden Blaze on Netflix play instantly. The hero is a young African American boy.

One of the best animated black superhero stories that a little kid would like. My three year old LOVES Golden Blaze. Forget these people who want you to forget race...they obviously are NOT Black because if they were they would know it is not so easy to forget your race in America and quite frankly what is wrong with acknowledging who you are if race is part of who you are??? DUH don't forget it just RESPECT IT!

[Anonymous]

Kiddo just watched Cyberchase on PBS this morning, and I realized that one of the "heroes" is probably an AA girl. Great storylines - and a bad guy - and lots of math puzzles. (should be available on internet because its pbs).

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Anonymous wrote:... We are
posted to Austalia and media is less diverse here. As it happens his preschool class is half Asian (lots of different ethnic groups), as is his best friend, so I have no idea where that comment came from. And while I'd love to live in a color blind society that's not the reality he (or I) live in.

Thanks for the reference to Nurture Shock. I read it a while back but I don't recall that part. I'll go look it up.

As a white parent I think it is EXCELLENT that you observed and paid attention to your son's observations. My son is Black and he asked why there are not black superheros so I had him watch this movie. People can act like race is not a factor but it is a factor just like sex, age etc. are factors. It's easy for those who are never affected by race to diminish it. I have no problem acknowledging race and accepting that we are all different and I love the differences!