@BadBanana
Black parenting has to be different. I saw a video (fiction but based on fact) about the talk black parents have with their children when they go out. It's completely different from the talk that white parents have.
Sorry, but why? That’s lumping is all in together a bit isn’t it?
Maybe that applies to black inner city mums in America, which is very sad and they as a country need to sort that shit out.
But in leafy Surrey? My son hasn’t been given any different ‘talks’ to his white friends.
My son is Asian, so not black, but still different. As a five year old I cannot put police officers in the box of safe people to approach in an emergency etc due to the police in the UK still being racist.
As a five year old he has seen me being stopped and searched, he has also seen that the white people we are with are not searched.
As a five year old he already has negative feelings about the colour of his skin due to the way some children have treated him at school.
To not deal with those issues would mean I has failed as a parent. Skin colour does matter, and sometimes it means people do need to be treated differently. That will not change while we still have people who hold racist views.
It isn’t a vastly different idea as to why girls have to be parented differently to keep them safe, don’t go out alone when dark, cross the road for groups of men etc.