'Given that the racial tensions currently unfolding will span her most impressionable years, the question at the front of my mind is: how will we talk to her about race?'
I was struck by thefrom a father whose son attended a rally in Charlottesville last weekend. Pearce Teftt wrote a letter disavowing his son Peter, who marched with the white supremacists. Teftt wrote that he and his family wish to “loudly repudiate” his son’s “vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and action.” The father goes on to talk about how Peter “did not learn [these beliefs] at home,” because Teftt says he taught his children that “all men and women are created equal.
My daughter will be three when the next U.S. election campaign rolls around. If this keeps up, who knows where we’ll be then. Who knows what kind of venomous rhetoric will be tolerated. Americans certainly never thought things would go the way they did after electing Obama. What’s in store for Canada? What fractures lay in our future, what wedge is coming to tear us apart?Media literacy is a given
, but how else do you guard against harmful ideas rooted in a malformed understanding of race? The last six months have demonstrated that I can’t even predict what kind of ideas she’ll encounter, let alone plan how to respond to them. While there are many unknowns, here’s what I do know: my wife and I want to equip her for a tumultuous time.
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