'Kids may learn that antiracism is a thing, but without more people of color in their daily interactions, they will not learn how to be antiracist.'
I live in Upper Montclair, NJ, a neighborhood lacking socioeconomic diversity. If my toddler attends these schools for the rest of her life, she will attend socioeconomically and racially segregated schools, which means we face a serious barrier to antiracist parenting. Kids may learn that antiracism is a thing, but without more people of color in their daily interactions, they will not learn how to be antiracist.
Until our school districts are representative of our society, we will continue to miss out on opportunities to pass on knowledge-how to be antiracist. We will miss out on knowing people of color as peers who learn with us in our classrooms, walk with us in our hallways, and play with us in our playgrounds. We will miss opportunities to get to know individuals as people first and model our regard for them as moral equals.
As the news cycle moves on, parents who are as committed to antiracism as they say they are must advocate for change. One way to start is to organize an antiracism parenting discussion group at your children's school or in your district (some schools are doing this virtually like
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