Or even if your kid is white but goes to school with black kids. I don't want him living in a different reality than them. He's going to have to know cops aren't always good, and we've started explaining already. He's 3 and they have already sent copaganda coloring books home, really alarming shit.

I have been toying with the idea of writing a children's book about this, and one about comparative religion for toddlers (your grandmother's Jesus stories are just stories, kiddo) but publishing children's books is hard even if they're not controversial, so, no that won't be happening.

I’ve been having more nuanced discussions with my white kid since he’s been asking too (8 yo) It’s important for everyone to know.

Then again my dad taught me the same, he got tear gassed protesting Vietnam and was harassed for having long hair in the 70s.

True. I don't have kids. What's the best way?

I mean in an emergency not caused by the police, they're probably who you want kids to turn to.

In other situations not so much.