17 Questions I Wish I Had Asked My Immigrant Father

At first, my answer was about accountability, encouraging these young adults to express their discomfort with the statements, explain why they felt that way, try to change their parents’ behavior, and ask their parent to not make those jokes/statements around them. As time went on, and I got more experience talking about anti-Black racism with people who had migrated to the United States and had American-born adult children, my answer shifted. The reality was that conversations that kept centering the “I” were about boundaries, not about <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/12/03/feminist-scholar-loretta-ross-is-calling-out-cancel-culture" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">calling in</a> people to change their behaviors. There’s a place for the boundaries (especially for those parents who refuse to listen or change), <a href="https://niawrites.medium.com/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44">Website</a>