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Listening, listening and listening. Talking about race and inequity with my children. #howweheal

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I will promote racial healing through having open dialogue within our local community.

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racial healing stems from love. Love for e/o, love for everyone around us. Staying informed of how we can progress forward.
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Tips on How to Talk to Your Kids About Race Issues

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Tips on How to Talk to Your Kids About Race Issues

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EmbraceRace is a multiracial community dedicated to sharing and developing best practices for raising and caring for kids, all kids, in the context of race. We partnered with MomsRising - a transformative multicultural organization of more than a million members working to increase family economic security and end discrimination against women and mothers - to create these tips for our communities.

They are designed to help parents of all backgrounds talk to and guide their children about race early and often by lifting up age-appropriate activities that can be incorporated easily into your daily life. We hope these tips provide some much needed support for families committed to building tolerance, racial equity, and a social culture where all kids and families can thrive!

1) Start early.

By 6 months of age babies are noticing racial differences; by age 4, children have begun to show signs of racial bias.

Let your child know that it's perfectly okay to notice skin color and talk about race. Start talking about what racial differences mean and don't mean.

2) Encourage your child.

Encourage your child to ask questions, share observations and experiences, and be respectfully curious about race.

Expose your child to different cultural opportunities - photographs, films, books, or cultural events, for example - and discuss the experience afterwards.

You don't have to be an expert on race to talk with our child. Be honest about what you don't know and work with your child to find accurate information.

3) Be mindful.

What kids hear from us is less important than what they see us do.

You are a role model to your child. What you say is important, but what you do - the diversity of your friendship circle, for example - is likely to have a bigger impact.

If your child doesn't attend a diverse school, consider enrolling her in aer-school or weekend activities such as sports leagues that are diverse if you're able. Choose books and toys that include persons of different races and ethnicities. Visit museums with exhibits about a range of cultures and religions.

4) Face and know your own bias.

Let your child see you acknowledge and face your own biases.

We're less likely to pass on the biases we identify and work to overcome.

Give your child an example of a bias, racial or otherwise, that you hold or have held. Share with your child things you do to confront and overcome that bias.

5) Know and love who you are.

Talk about the histories and experiences of the racial, ethnic, and cultural groups you and your family identify with. Talk about their contributions and acknowledge the less flattering parts of those histories as well.

Tell stories about the challenges your family (your child's parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents and great grandparents, others) has faced and overcome.

6) Develop racial cultural literacy.

Develop racial cultural literacy by learning about and respecting others.

Study and talk about the histories and experiences of groups we call African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and whites, among others.

Be sure your child understands that every racial and ethnic group includes people who believe different things and behave in different ways . There is as much diversity within racial groups as across them.

7) Be honest.

Be honest with your child, in age-appropriate ways, about bigotry and oppression.

Children are amazing at noticing patterns, including racial patterns (who lives in their neighborhood versus their friends' neighborhoods, for example). Help them make sense of those patterns, and recognize that bigotry and oppression are sometimes a big part of those explanations.

Be sure your child knows that the struggle for racial fairness is still happening and that your family can take part in that struggle.

8) Tell stories.

"Lift up the freedom fighters ": Tell stories of resistance and resilience.

Every big story of racial oppression is also a story about people fighting back and "speaking truth to power." Teach your child those parts of the story too.

Include women, children and young adults among the "freedom fighters" in the stories you tell. A story about racial struggle in which all the heroes are men wrongly leaves many people out.

9) Be active.

Be active - don't be a "bystander" on race.

Help your child understand what it means to be, and how to be, a change agent.

Whenever possible, connect the conversations you're having to the change you and your child want to see, and to ways to bring about that change .

10) Plan for a marathon, not a sprint.

It's okay to say, "I'm not sure" or "Let's come back to that later, okay?" But then do come back to it.

Make race talks with your child routine. Race is a topic you should plan to revisit again and again in many different ways overtime.

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10 tips for teaching and talking to kids about race

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These tips are designed to help parents of all backgrounds teach and talk to their children about race early and often by lifting up age-appropriate activities that can be incorporated easily into your daily life.

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Don't rely on your friends from marginalized groups to educate you. Educate yourself with this great list of books about issues of race.
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In this bestseller, Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo prompts people of all races to start having honest conversations about race, giving readers handy phrases and questions to start unpacking racism within their own social networks. She tackles subjects ranging from intersectionality to microaggressions, or subtly racist remarks or actions.

Thomonique Moore, a 2016 graduate of Howard University, founder of online book club Books&Shit, which explores titles by authors of color, and an incoming master's candidate at Columbia University's Teacher's College, recommends everyone pick of this title.

"This is a good book to help white people and non-black people of color answer often spoken and unspoken questions about race and racism," Moore told Business Insider.
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In this book, Bonilla-Silva makes a powerful argument against the idea that race doesn't exist, or that being "colorblind" is an appropriate solution to racism.

Crystal Fleming, associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at Stony Brook University called this "one of the most important books on racism."

"In particular, Bonilla-Silva helps us understand how the rhetoric of colorblindness reinforces the racial status quo," she told Business Insider.
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"Two-Faced Racism," published in 2007, features more than 600 journal entries of racial events kept by white college students at 28 colleges in the US. It exposes how closely held racist beliefs are still very much a part of American culture.

Fleming assigns this book to students taking her "Racism and Ethnic Relations" course at Stony Brook University.

"Picca and Feagin analyze data from journal entries provided by white college students which reveals how racism works behind closed doors as well as in public and semi-public spaces," Fleming said.
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"The Ethnic Project" was written by Vilna Bashi Treitler, a sociology professor in the department of black students at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

In this historical narrative work, Treitler examines the ethnic history of the US from the arrival of the English in North America to the present day. She shows how each group of immigrants from Irish to Chinese people negotiated their place in the pecking order of ethnic groups within in the country.

"'The Ethnic Project' is incredibly useful for understanding the racial hierarchy in the United States," Fleming said.
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Feagin incorporates more than 200 recent research studies and reports in his book, which illustrates the origins of racism in the US, and how it still pervades white culture today.

Augustine Kposowa, professor and chair of the department of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, cites this book as an important read for anyone looking to be anti-racist.

"Joe Feagin reveals just how racist whites are," Kposowa said. "Feagin is white and he is privy to secret conversations that whites have in white networks that blacks can never join. In his book, he mentions stories, and what white people say in private, at dinner tables, in their circles about black people, leaving no stone untouched."
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Maryann Erigha, assistant sociology professor at the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia recommends this book written by Harriet Washington, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

"Washington's book provides a full context and comprehensive understanding of the history and present of medical experimentation and the mistreatment of Blacks in the medical industrial complex. She covers a wide range of areas, from academic pseudoscience to the medical atrocities committed by the government and armed forces, prisons, and private institutions," she said.
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Erigha also recommended " The New Jim Crow" and " So You Want to Talk About Race?" In addition, she suggested her own book, which tackles how racist beliefs pervade American movies, a major export to countries across the globe.

"My book highlights the ubiquity and implications of underlying beliefs about race and value, inferiority/superiority, profit/loss, desirability/undesirability, that are pervasive among whites in Hollywood and that influence their decision-making about what movies get made, for how much, and under what conditions," she told Business Insider.
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In the "code of the street," Yale professor Elijah Anderson, presents an explanation for high rates of violence among black teens in the US. Anderson explains how living in impoverished areas without access to economic opportunities, being separated from mainstream society, as well as persistent discrimination was linked with anti-social attitudes and and violent behavior in black teens.

Mansa Bilal Mark King, associate professor of sociology at Morehouse College, told Business Insider it's one of the most important books non-black people can read.

"This is one of the best books for helping non-black people begin to understand that the adoption of a street persona is often a matter of everyday safety for black people who are not actually committed to a street ethos," he said.
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In "Black Wealth/White Wealth," sociological researchers Oliver and Shapiro capture just how large the wealth gap is between black and white Americans.

"This book helps people of all races begin to understand that it was white America that systematically chooses for us to have almost all black, low-income, 'ghetto areas.' Equally important, this imposed reality means that black children are born at a disadvantage, in the vast majority of cases, through no fault of their own," King said.

This was the most popular anti-racism book checked out digitally from the end of May through June, according to Overdrive.

In this hit title, Saad brings her unique perspective as an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman - who's also a speaker and writer - to the forefront. Her book came after the hashtag she started #MeandWhiteSupremacy, where people shared their own experiences with racism, went viral. Saad's book lists the common reasons why white people aren't actively anti-racist, and includes concrete steps on how to be a better ally.
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"Stamped," a young adult nonfiction book, is another popular title among readers, according to Overdrive. In this book, Reynolds, renowned young-adult author, reimagines Kendi's bestseller for a younger audience. The book explores how the history of racism is inextricably linked to the creation of the US.
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In "Just Mercy," Stevenson tells his incredible story of creating the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice to help those most desperate and in need, like the wrongly condemned. One of his first clients was Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to death for a murder he said he didn't commit. The story of Stevenson's fight for justice was turned into a major motion film.
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In McMillan Cottom's eyes, the personal is political, and she doesn't shy away from talking about all of it. In eight treatises on beauty, media, money, race, and abuse, McMillan Cottom explores the ways American culture treats Black women. Roxanne Gay, writer, professor and author of the best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist calls this book "brilliant."
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22 books on race and white privilege that will show you what's really happening in America right now

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In this bestseller, Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo prompts people of all races to start having honest conversations about race, giving readers handy phrases and questions to start unpacking racism within their own social networks. She tackles subjects ranging from intersectionality to microaggressions, or subtly racist remarks or actions.

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I will promote racial healing by listening to people of color when they point out injustices in our country. I will listen to them when they call me out for saying or believing racist or prejudiced things. It might be hard to hear, but I will believe them when they use their voice.

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I will promote racial healing by being mindful of speaking up for those that feel they have no voice, and thoughtful and accepting of all humans.

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I Will Promote Racial Healing by Forgiving others

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I Will Promote Racial Healing by Forgiving others

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I will forgive others that judge me for my appearance or cultural background.

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making sure that black children are seen, heard, and loved in our classroom which includes making sure they see themselves in the lessons and texts used within our classroom and have the power to create and share their own work within the classroom and beyond.

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Creating a safe space in my classroom for open dialogue and through the teaching of a robust and honest social studies curriculum.

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H – Heart-to-heart conversations
E – Engaging discussions
A – Accepting opinions
L – Listening to others
I – Involving all
N – Never denying others their right to speak
G – Getting involved
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I will promote racial healing by supporting black-owned businesses. I will also use my platform of high school coach to speak to my student athletes about standing up and speaking out against racial injustice and discrimination. 

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I will promote racial healing by supporting black-owned businesses. I will also use my platform of high school coach to speak to my student athletes about standing up and speaking out against racial injustice and discrimination. 

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I will promote racial healing by doing what I can to prevent spreading false narratives, especially when they can hurt people of color. I won't just automatically post something. I will do what I can to research where the information comes from and ask if it is a credible source or a biased source, who says it, and how old the information is.

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I will promote Racial Healing by
bringing awareness of how important it is to stay on a united front together not wavering from the path of wanting Racial Justice in our communities and the world #Unitedwewin

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calling out biases and discrimination, even when it's from people I love. Then I will work to educate them through dialogue.

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By proving with statistics that black people do not commit 46% of all violent crime in the US.

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I am so thankful for diversity, especially in my own life. Having friends that are from different cultures than me has really opened my eyes to the blind spots I have concerning race. It has also helped me better understand what privileges I have as a white woman, and how I can use them to fight for those privileges to be extended to the people I love.
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"How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi

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"How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi

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This book was awesome and really helped me, as a white person, understand what it means to be antiracist and how calling myself "not a racist" is just not good enough!
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Whether it be a poem, a video, a picture, a book, whatever it is that you feel promotes racial healing and understanding in our community, post it with the hashtag #HowWeHeal

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I will promote racial healing by marching in protests against police brutality against people of color in my community.

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I will promote racial healing by acknowledging my own racial biases when they are pointed out to me, and then work to change them.

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Share the ways in which you will promote racial healing by starting your post with the phrase: "I will promote racial healing by . . ."

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The Difference Between Not Being a Racist and Being Antiracist #HowWeHeal

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The Difference Between Not Being a Racist and Being Antiracist #HowWeHeal

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The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi