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We're in a COMPLETELY different world right now...and what worked back then, doesn't work now.
We have NOT explicitly talked about racism with our children in the same way that we were "taught"....or should I say had fear instilled in us from a young age.
No matter how you slice it, despite all the talks about Black pride, perseverance, turning the other cheek, being strong, etc., etc., etc....we were raised with the self image of being victims and "less than". I don't want that for my children at all. We haven't figured out a way to teach them about racism, at this young age anyway, without them forming a false impression in their young minds of how that aligns with their identity.
We are doing our best to raise them human, citizens, individuals, Americans, children of Mr. & Mrs. FLUIDJ, grandchildren, part of a long history.....and wrapped up in all of that is of course their Blackness. We are teaching them that they need to move in this world focused more on the friends that they make, and the people that they DO like and that DO like them rather than the people that don't. The goal is for them to get it in their heads that those people don't matter and time shouldn't be wasted on them...white, Black, black, or anything...
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