The Kids Are All Right

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Adults often find it really hard to talk about race. But kids? Maybe not so much. NPR received more than 2,000 entries in this year's Student Podcast Challenge, and we heard from young people all over the country about how they're thinking about race and identity in these trying times.

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0:00.0	I'm Jean-Demby.
0:01.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji and this is Code Switch.
0:05.6	From NPR.
0:07.6	So, you know, if you listen to Code Switch, you know, we talk a lot about how people think
0:11.1	about and process and understand their own racial and cultural identities.
0:16.0	I live the whole life, but I don't talk to much.
0:19.1	I feel like I don't belong anywhere.
0:21.6	And I sell out my race.
0:23.5	I spent the first 12 years of my life thinking that I was a little weight girl.
0:29.2	I've said this multiple times on the show.
0:31.5	I'm still trying to figure out how to fully embrace and express all of who I am, my own multi-ethnic
0:37.4	background.
0:38.4	And, you know, this is something I've been doing forever since I was a kid.
0:43.9	Speaking of kids, Rene.
0:44.9	Yes.
0:45.9	It's got to be a real, a real strange time.
0:47.9	Like a very weird time to be a kid right now.
0:49.9	Because so much of childhood is routines and getting used to routines.
0:53.2	You know what I mean?
0:54.2	You go to school, you get your little graham cracker with the perforations on it, you break
0:57.6	it along the quadrants.
0:58.9	You hang out with your friends, you have Renette Tom and recessed time at a certain time.
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