TFA Philly - How to Talk to Kids about Race by The Antiracism Academy https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen Do you remember the first conversation your parents or caregivers had with you about race or racism? How old were you? What did they say? en-us 2022-03-21 13:23:09 UTC 2022-03-22 20:37:42 UTC hello@padlet.com We didn't speak about racism. theantiracismacademy https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105294018 2022-03-21 13:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105294018 I do not remember speaking about race until I was in college. https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105798929 2022-03-21 17:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105798929 https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799294 Very young. Before I began kindergarten I remember having conversations about race]]> 2022-03-21 17:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799294 Kdg, talked about differences and how must celebrate and learn from them. Centered in race, identity and religion https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799532 2022-03-21 17:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799532 https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799786 Maybe around 10? Came up in sharing stereotypes about Black people. ]]> 2022-03-21 17:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799786 in my house any explicit talk of racism generally took the form of "color blindness" and talk as though we lived in a "post racial" society, while simultaneously promoting harmful stereotypes about Black folks but acting as though those weren't happening. https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799971 2022-03-21 17:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105799971 https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800012 It was in middle school, maybe between 11-13 years old, and the conversation was vague, focused on everyone being "different" and made references to "how people are raised." Racism was referred to mostly as past tense, and in conversation about history. ]]> 2022-03-21 17:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800012 We didn't speak about Racism, I learned about Racism and dug in deeper in High School https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800053 2022-03-21 17:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800053 age 6 https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800251 when I was 6, my grandparent's neighbors yelled down racial slurs to me and my cousin while we were playing in the yard. My parents had to explain to us what they said and why they said it]]> 2022-03-21 17:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800251 don't remember, but likely it was around a specific historical lesson rooted in the civil rights movement. it wasn't a regular conversation in our household, nor was it clearly named. https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800893 2022-03-21 17:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800893 https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800946 i don't remember ever having an explicit conversation about race with my parents]]> 2022-03-21 17:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105800946 camille_w https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105804212 it's weird b/c my mom is white presenting/mixed and my dad is black and they divorced when i was pretty young, but i still grew up around primarily other black people. i recall experiencing colorism as the darkest colored skin child my parents had amongst people who knew me and my lighter skinned sisters. but that wasn't really addressed by my parents.]]> 2022-03-21 17:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/theantiracismacademy/rdfntsoqfzz0luen/wish/2105804212