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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I've done with my white boy (a teen now) is talk quite a bit about race and history, while also giving him a sense of how he can be on the side of right. We have a long family history of participation in abolition and civil rights, and so we can tell him that he has a place in the struggle as an ally. Its convenient to be able to share family history, but I think its important for kids to identify with something. We don't want them to feel excluded from the struggle by their whiteness when talking about oppression - we want them to feel a sense of solidarity with those who fight it. So yes, it is important to give white kids models of white anti-racists they can identify with and look up to and feel that the struggle against racism is a critical part of the American story, and as Americans it becomes their story, too.[/quote]

Thanks. This is helpful. If you have any oppression in your family history, do you ever talk about that and make the connection to current events?  (Like war refugees, immigrants etc).  [/quote]

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