4 Things White Parents of Black Kids Can Do To Stop Telling On Themselves

Every so often a member of the White Adoptive Parent Blog Industrial Complex gets too far out over their skis when writing about race. The pieces tend to be born out of intense parental love, but go awry when the authors either insert themselves into the center of the struggle for racial justice instead of playing a supporting role, or when they demonstrate a shallow understanding of how to prepare kids to inhabit black bodies in the United States. The most recent example of the latter is a piece that began circulating late last week from The Federalist where the author claimed that “<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/10/worst-racism-children-experienced-came-black-peers/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Worst Racism My Children Have Experienced Came From Black Peer</a>s.” Among the many problematic elements of piece, the most troubling is the undergirding white savior paradigm that seeks to shelter her family in the safety of dominant culture, resulting in a lot of misunderstanding and vilification of people of color. <a href="https://christian-dashiell.medium.com/4-things-white-parents-of-black-kids-can-do-to-stop-telling-on-themselves-ebcd6f870247">Visit Now</a>