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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do. Not. Do. This.[/quote] +1 You can sidestep these questions. Thats a great book because it shows a little black girl achieving her dream, but it’s meant to inspire all children, not to teach 3 year olds about society’s evils[/quote] So how would you answer the 3 yr old’s question, “why did the teacher say that Mae couldn’t be as astronaut?” And why did the other kids laugh at Mae? I totally get where OP is coming from. However as an African American mother, there is no sidestepping the race issue. [/quote] +2. When your child is Brown there is no way to sidestep racism either. [/quote] +3. Only possible to sidestep, ignore, or put off for later if you’re white - which should say something about the need for white parents to find ways to talk about these issues. [/quote]
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