Educational curricula, policies, and parenting that support anti-racism beginning in pre-school
Every day since George Floyd’s death, I have read to my five-year-old, brown-skinned boy about reasons to love his skin. After reading a book that explained how black and brown-skinned people are not always treated fairly, he asked, “Does that mean white people are mean?”
As we discussed ways that systemic racism plays out in society, this was exactly the generalization I feared. In the process of explaining how …