Concerns for future of biracial kids?

[Leafsandleafin]

I am raising two biracial (black/white) kids in the UK 🇬🇧

I am becoming increasingly fearful about their future wellbeing snd safety due to the current political tension and racial division.

My eldest child (age 9) has never experienced that she is aware of and my youngest is still a baby.. it breaks my heart to know that she’s not far off reading some of the awful stuff written about mixed race people online at the very minimum. I feel so helpless as well.

She’s mentioned before wanting to travel to America when she’s older but I
know it’s even worse there.

Part of me doesn’t want any of this ignorance and cruelty to hold our family back but at same time I want her to always feel safe and valued.

My other child has barely arrived and I worry for their future too. Will they be lucky enough to get as far as my daughter has without experiencing any racial discrimination?! Have we just been lucky or am I overreacting?

It’s crazy how much I worry and think this through. I thought UK was safe and progressive when i had my first child but I was clearly wrong.

If anyone has any words of wisdom or strategies to manage my concerns I’d be super grateful.

Thanks :)

It is unusual not have spoken to her about racial discrimination regardless of her ethnicities.

I am biracial (not black and white) and spoke to my kids about racism and slurs by the time that they started school. Unfortunately it’s not unusual to hear racial slurs and I certainly didn’t want my kids repeating that kind of stuff. By the time they heard a real life person say racial slurs, they knew that racism was worse than just saying a swear word. It’s not just about the possibility that someone might say it to them, I hoped that they would support friends who might experience it too.

We also covered misogynyhomophobia and disablism (which increasingly became insults they heard as they got older) With the internet out there, I think that you should be the one to talk to her rather than her learning about it from the online comments section because there are some scary people out there.

Yanbu to worry about the future. I see what’s happening in the US and extremist attitudes becoming more open and common if a Reform
government happened.