How To Not (Accidentally) Raise A Racist

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What's the best way for white parents to talk to their kids about race? We called in Dr. Brigitte Vittrup, who studies children's racial attitudes, to help us out—and to answer questions about cringeworthy moments with your own kids. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary Frank.
0:09.2	Last year we did an episode with our friend and editorial board member Antonia Akitune
0:13.4	Day.
0:14.4	You may remember this.
0:15.4	Antonia runs this amazing website called Modernia.
0:18.6	It focuses on black motherhood and it has got some of the most gorgeous photography I've
0:23.0	ever seen on the internet.
0:25.3	In our episode with Antonia, episode 85, we talked about some of the moms that she's covered.
0:30.9	And we focused a lot on how these women have addressed racism with their kids, even big
0:35.0	things like police brutality.
0:37.3	One single mom that Antonia featured actually moved to Japan in the hopes of keeping her
0:41.6	son safe.
0:43.2	A lot of you left comments on the post for that episode saying how much you could relate
0:47.8	to the struggles that these moms were going through.
0:50.5	And we got this comment from a woman named Wanda.
0:53.5	There's a lot out there about how people of color and black folks in particular have
0:57.4	to talk to their kids about race in order to protect them.
1:00.6	As a black woman who wants to be a parent one day, I think a lot about how the white
1:04.2	children my kids will interact with will be prepared or not to talk about race.
1:08.3	I think an episode that features white families getting a race right would be fascinating.
1:12.5	Can you make it happen LST?
1:15.4	When we read this comment from Wanda here at the longest shortest time, we were immediately
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