2.12: How to Talk to Your Children About Racism

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode you will learn the first three things you can do to talk to your children about racism.

Teach them that race is a social construct that was created to justify slavery
Teach them about implicit bias (Implicit Association Test)
Teach them how to respond with humility when someone tells them that they have done/said something racist

This episode was originally aired on 3 in 30 Podcast for Moms, I’m so grateful to Rachel Nielson for letting me share it with our First Name Basis family.

Song Credit: “Away” by Geographer and “Beach Disco” by Dougie Wood

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 12, How to Talk to Your Children about racism.
0:14.3	Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation from good intentions to confident action.
0:23.1	Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable asking.
0:28.7	We'll use the lessons we learned to teach our children about race, religion, and culture.
0:33.5	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.
0:48.2	Thank you. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw. Hello, first name basis, fam.
0:50.6	I am so glad you are here.
0:54.2	This week has been really heavy.
0:58.4	This week we learned about the murder of a 25-year-old man named Amad Arbery.
1:06.1	He was a black man jogging through a suburban neighborhood when he was followed, trapped, shot, and killed
1:13.3	by two white men. And on the day that I'm releasing this episode, it would have been his 26th birthday.
1:23.9	When I learned of Ahmaud's brutal killing, I was overcome with grief because I have watched my family members, my dad especially, jump through hoops in suburban areas to make sure that he could keep himself safe.
1:42.2	He dresses a certain way, talks a certain way, doesn't go places at certain
1:47.8	times, all to protect himself. And I'm sure that Ahmad did the same thing. All of us in the black
1:55.0	community are taught that these are the things that we have to do to survive. And what is so
2:00.1	frustrating to me is that we shouldn't have
2:02.4	to do any of them. We should be able to move through the world freely, just like anyone around us,
2:10.0	being ourselves, and the color of our skin should not be a target on our backs. So even though I plan to release a completely different episode this week, I think that this
2:23.0	one is what we need in this moment.
2:26.0	This episode was originally aired on the 3 and 30 podcast.
2:30.1	The host, Rachel Nielsen, reach out to me to share with her audience three tips and 30 minutes
2:37.5	about how you can start the conversation with your children about racism.
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