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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you chiming in that your kids are white so you don't need to worry, have you talked to your kids about what to do if they are out with Black friends and those friends are targeted by the police?

What about how they need to make even BETTER choices as a group if they have a Black friend in the mix? [/quote]

That's a really good question.

My white son is 10 -- so just on the brink of that kind of independence where he's likely to be spending time with friends out in public without adults present.

We've looked for teaching moments to help him think this through. Conversations about how his black friends will be judged more harshly for innocent actions than he will be. Need to keep these conversations going, especially as he gets older.[/quote]

There are a lot of great articles about how to have these talks with your white teens/tweens, but the salient factor is that "youthful indiscresions" can be deadly for Black kids. When I think back to my high school days, in a very white part of the US, we knew that we'd be "in big trouble" if we were caught drinking at the park, or trespassing in the town hall fountain, but there was zero chance we'd be physically hurt by law enforcement.

Living here, I need to talk to my kids about how they (as white kids) can protect their black friends by never pushing them to do that sort of thing. [/quote]

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