Painful but necessary: Why I stopped putting off the racism talk with my daughter |
Painful but necessary: Why I stopped putting off the racism talk with my daughter
CBC News
2016-07-01
Samantha Kemp-Jackson
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 Demonstrators stand in front of the East Baton Rouge Parish City Hall doors on Monday. (Reuters) |
Talk opens door to a world where ignorance is not bliss and racism must be confronted head-on
“There are people who will not like you because of the colour of your skin.”
As a woman of colour raising biracial children, I have always been very aware that their reality will one day include the experience of being discriminated against solely for the way they appear. It’s an uneasy truth that I’ve not wanted to address, because who wants to think of anyone hurting their children?
And so I muddled through. Tomorrow, next week, next month — that’s when I’ll talk to them.
Then Alton Sterling was killed. Five gunshot wounds to the chest and back from a pair of Baton Rouge, La., police. Philando Castile the next day in suburban St. Paul, Minn. Five Dallas police officers killed by a sniper two days later as they worked to protect protesters who had gathered to demand justice for the deaths of Sterling and Castile…
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