Mom & Dad: Lessons From a Racist Instagram and the Teens It Hurt

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode: Award-winning journalist Dashka Slater joins to talk about her new book, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed. It’s a story of a teen sharing extremely racist memes and photos of classmates on a private instagram and what happened when the account was discovered. It led to even more hurt, protests, botched mediation, and a community-wide conversation about justice and what it means to be complicit. Besides the interview, hosts Jamilah Lemieux, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen share their parenting ups and downs of the week—including a late night before the first day of kindergarten and big-kid summer camp. Then, on Slate Plus: we share lots of listener letters ranging from two player games to suggestions for handling the great bathroom conundrum of 2023. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, August 31st, the Accountable Edition.
0:44.6	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column, and Mom to Naima, who's Penn, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:53.8	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:55.1	I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose.
0:57.7	I'm the mom of three littles, Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy, who's 6.
1:02.1	And we live in Tokyo, Japan.
1:04.7	I'm Zach Rosen.
1:05.9	I make another podcast.
1:07.1	It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am Dad to Noah, who just turned six, and Ami, who is nearly three. We're in Detroit.
1:14.4	Today on the show, we're going to start, as always, by sharing our parenting ups and downs from the week.
1:20.1	Then we're going to be joined by Dashka Slater. Dashka is an award-winning journalist and author. Her most recent book is called Account, the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives had changed.
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