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Chakita Sharnise (7)
Repost from @moemotivate. It is a privilege to avoid these direct conversations, meanwhile I’m reminding my children yet again what to do when interacting with the police. My children. I am reminding children whose only cares in the world should be which marker they’re gonna color with or what next game they will play. Children.
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We have to watch the fear build up in their bodies (feeling sad that we’re the ones delivering the sobering news) while also trying to manage our own fears because we know the harsh reality. And we know they can’t afford to be naive. There’s too much at stake.
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We have to comfort them when they express these fears, and reassure them in ways that we hope will bring them both a sense of peace and awareness. We have to do this with children. Children. Because we know that avoiding these conversations means we’re sending them out into the word unprepared. But we also know that having these conversations interrupts the freedom of their childhood, though white supremacy has already done so.
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There is no innocence for our Blackness in a world made to protect, uphold and benefit whiteness. There’s no innocence reserved for us...yet white families desire to preserve all the innocence for their white children by avoiding these conversations all together. So the question isn’t when to talk to your child about race, but instead it must be how.
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And you don’t leave it there. You actually find out and then apply what you’re learning, daily. Because there’s never a time when racism waits for the right time to destroy our lives—it just does. Thus, everyday you need to be working to change this reality. Repost from @moemotivate.
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Comment ‘Amen’ if you agree.
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Chakita Sharnise (7)
Repost from @moemotivate. It is a privilege to avoid these direct conversations, meanwhile I’m reminding my children yet again what to do when interacting with the police. My children. I am reminding children whose only cares in the world should be which marker they’re gonna color with or what next game they will play. Children.
...
We have to watch the fear build up in their bodies (feeling sad that we’re the ones delivering the sobering news) while also trying to manage our own fears because we know the harsh reality. And we know they can’t afford to be naive. There’s too much at stake.
...
We have to comfort them when they express these fears, and reassure them in ways that we hope will bring them both a sense of peace and awareness. We have to do this with children. Children. Because we know that avoiding these conversations means we’re sending them out into the word unprepared. But we also know that having these conversations interrupts the freedom of their childhood, though white supremacy has already done so.
...
There is no innocence for our Blackness in a world made to protect, uphold and benefit whiteness. There’s no innocence reserved for us...yet white families desire to preserve all the innocence for their white children by avoiding these conversations all together. So the question isn’t when to talk to your child about race, but instead it must be how.
...
And you don’t leave it there. You actually find out and then apply what you’re learning, daily. Because there’s never a time when racism waits for the right time to destroy our lives—it just does. Thus, everyday you need to be working to change this reality. Repost from @moemotivate.
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Comment ‘Amen’ if you agree.
.
.
.
#UnitedStreetTours #blackhistory #Allyship #changingthenarrative #inclusion #love #antiracism #nashville #nashvillehistory #musiccity #united #nashvilleblackhistory #WhiteAllies #Racialjustice #blacklivesmatter #Racism #Antiracist #antiracism #whitewashing #chakitasharnise #Whitefragility #buyblack #WhiteAlly #reparations #blackowned #FemaleEntrepreneur #feminist #feminism #antiracisteveryday