Experts share tips on how to talk to your kids about race
A Minnesota Children's Museum virtual discussion and new MPR podcast offer tips on how to raise anti-racist kids.
April 23, 2021 — 9:57am
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Since George Floyd's death, the need to address racism and white privilege in Minnesota has come to the forefront.
Q: Why is it so important to talk to kids about race?
A: One of the reasons why we struggle with the issue of racism so much in our country — and in particular in Minnesota, where we have some of the worst opportunity and achievement gaps between white people and people of color — is because we cannot talk about it. I can't tell you how many times I have been in meetings with very smart, high-level people, and the minute I say something about racism, the room gets quiet. Nobody has anything to say.