5.9: Don’t Wait Until Something Bad Happens To Talk To Your Kids About Race
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It’s obvious that there is a need to talk about race with our kiddos when big events are in the news. But if that’s the only time we’re talking to them about this, that means these conversations are always coming from a place of trauma instead of a place of preparation.
It’s time to be proactive instead of just reactive, and Dr. Lucretia Berry is here to help us with that.
Dr. Berry is a scholar, mother to three little girls and anti-racist educator. She recently joined me for a conversation to discuss how we as parents and teachers can be talking to kids about race and anti-racism long before something bad hits the news.
It is seriously an honor to have Dr. Berry on the podcast sharing her wisdom with us. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Iowa State University and her BA from South Carolina State University and is the founder of Brownicity (pronounced like “ethnicity”), an organization that works to foster racial healing and anti-racist education through courses for children and adults. You can see her work at brownicity.com, in her TedX Talk (“Children will light up the world if we don’t keep them in the dark”), on Instagram (@lucretiaberry) and in her new book, on sale starting TODAY, Feb. 22, 2022, titled “Hues of You: An Activity Book for Learning About the Skin You Are In.”
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Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
Dr. Lucretia Berry on Instagram (@lucretiaberry)
Brownicity’s website
Brownicity on Instagram (@brownicity)
“Hues of You: An Activity Book for Learning About the Skin You Are In,” by Dr. Lucretia Berry
Dr. Berry’s TedX talk (“Children will light up the world if we don’t keep them in the dark”)
First Name Basis Podcast Season 2, Episode 10: “Let’s Talk Language: Black or African-American?”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Bases podcast, Season 5, Episode 9. Don't wait until something bad happens to talk to your kids about race. |
| 0:16.2 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:24.3 | First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a change maker in your community. |
| 0:32.4 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, a world that |
| 0:39.2 | reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, First Name Basis fam. I am so glad you are here. My guest today is actually one of my very first friends that I made on this anti-racist journey. Her name is Dr. Lucretia Berry and I have known her since season one of first name basis. She was like the first person I met on the internet |
| 1:13.8 | and totally bonded with. And I honestly can't believe that she hasn't been on the show yet. |
| 1:20.2 | Dr. Lucretia Berry is the founder of an organization called Brownicity. And they're actually |
| 1:25.1 | really similar to first name basis. They provide resources |
| 1:28.2 | and classes for parents, teachers, educators, caregivers, anyone who really wants to talk to |
| 1:34.5 | kiddos about race. And I am so grateful for Dr. Barry's mentorship and leadership because she's |
| 1:41.0 | the mom of three girls. I feel like our lives mirror each other so much. So I've |
| 1:45.9 | turned to her a lot when I've had questions or needed guidance because she is just so dang qualified. |
| 1:55.3 | She has her PhD and she's given a TED talk. That was really caught my eye about her first off. It's called |
| 2:03.0 | Children Will Light Up the World if we don't keep them in the dark. And she talks all about the |
| 2:08.0 | importance of teaching our kiddos the truth about the world and the truth about race and |
| 2:12.6 | racism. It's so powerful. So I will link that in the show notes because I know you're going to love it. |
| 2:18.6 | The other thing is she actually develops anti-racist curriculum and she's a high school teacher. |
| 2:24.1 | She teaches a class called Anti-Racism 101. |
| 2:27.2 | So she's got parents covered. |
| 2:29.1 | She's got high schoolers covered and she's got our little ones covered. |
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