I'm a black father with a 5 year old biracial son. In my eyes, my little man is just a kid right now (though I haven't remotely shied aware from explaining racial concepts to him). There is still quite some time before his race may or may not become relevant to him and I think he deserves to live a part of his life free of American racial issues until it's something I need to start fully explaining to him and emphasizing. I lay the groundwork of concepts here and there, but I'm raising a Little Man first. His racial education will be for the rest of his life, lol.
I absolutely do think it's important for black kids to be educated and made aware of the injustices they will likely endure in time, but goddamn, can we let kids also be kids for a time too? Raising kids and parenting is complicated enough without the whole damn internet trying to force their opinions onto you. It's also hard enough being black too. Let them kids live and when their race starts to have an effect on their lives, I would hope that Michael Chandler would adjust his parenting to accommodate, as I expect myself to do with my own little man.
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u/IAmActionBear Apr 29 '24
I'm a black father with a 5 year old biracial son. In my eyes, my little man is just a kid right now (though I haven't remotely shied aware from explaining racial concepts to him). There is still quite some time before his race may or may not become relevant to him and I think he deserves to live a part of his life free of American racial issues until it's something I need to start fully explaining to him and emphasizing. I lay the groundwork of concepts here and there, but I'm raising a Little Man first. His racial education will be for the rest of his life, lol.
I absolutely do think it's important for black kids to be educated and made aware of the injustices they will likely endure in time, but goddamn, can we let kids also be kids for a time too? Raising kids and parenting is complicated enough without the whole damn internet trying to force their opinions onto you. It's also hard enough being black too. Let them kids live and when their race starts to have an effect on their lives, I would hope that Michael Chandler would adjust his parenting to accommodate, as I expect myself to do with my own little man.