You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 20, the untold story of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation, from good intentions to confident action.

Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable asking.

We'll use the lessons we learned to teach our children about race, religion, and culture.

I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.

Thank you. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw. Hello, First NameBasas, fam. I am so glad you are here.

Before we jump into the episode, I wanted to remind you to become a member

of our first name basis Patreon community. And I wanted to give you this reminder now because

this week on Tuesday is our very first live question and answer session. So if you're not

sure what I'm talking about, Patreon is a

membership site where you can support first name basis. You can support our podcast and what we're doing,

but you can also have access to a group of parents who are committed to this journey. The parents

in our first name basis patron community are absolutely

outstanding. They ask the most in-depth, thoughtful questions. They give so many good comments

about everything that they're trying to do in their homes and everything that they're trying to do

in their communities. It's really something that just

gives me so much life. So this Tuesday, inside our Patreon group, I'm going to be going live so

that we can answer the questions that our parents have been asking. If you are on this journey

of becoming an anti-racist parent, you know that it is hard and it is messy

and you can never predict what those little ones are going to say. They throw some serious

curveballs at us. So inside our group on Tuesday, we are going to dive deep during our question

and answer session and really get into what's been

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