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Navigating Parenthood as Black Parents in a Growing Minnesota City

In this episode of Early Risers, Dianne speaks with Kai and James Miller, a married couple raising their two daughters in Rochester, Minnesota. Kai and James share their experiences as Black parents in a growing city that's becoming more racially diverse.
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Small-Town Iowa Public Schools Teach Preschoolers Transgenderism


January 28, 2021
Next week, the Ames, Iowa public school district is sponsoring a “Black Lives Matter week of action” that includes teaching transgenderism to children as young as four years old, Young America’s Foundation reports.
On the school district’s webpage about this “week of action” slated for Feb. 1-5, it reprints the “Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles,” which include the following:

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Queer Affirming – We are committed to fostering a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking or, rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless s/he or they disclose otherwise.” ....

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Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents


Fight Anti-Blackness with our Asian Parents
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“You can never date or marry a Black person.”
These words, or some version of them, may be familiar to you. They were spoken by my parents when they forbade me from attending a school formal with a Haitian American friend, and these words were repeated to my brother and myself throughout our young adult and adult life.
Growing up in New York one of the most diverse, yet highly segregated, metro areas in the United States I heard fellow Asian Americans use racist stereotypes to not only justify that our communities were simply too different to mix, but to also scapegoat, dehumanize and devalue Black people. The model minority myth made us think we were more hardworking, more white-adjacent, and more deserving of success. My father told me I caught lice from hanging out with too many Black girls, and my mother locked car doors, averted her eyes, and pulled me closer when Black men passed by. ....

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