Talk to Your Non-black Kid about Using the N-word
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll tell cover what you need to say to your suburban kid about the n-word. I really feel like no parent is going to watch this video. Mainly because nice, respectful, aware parents don't think their kids would EVER use the n-word. Sure, you've never had a conversation specifically about it, but your kid has never heard YOU use that kind of language. There is really no way they would think that was acceptable. Here's the reality -- and I know this because I have witnessed multiple incidents just within the last year of kids using the n-word in the "rap" sense. This is in my upscale, majority white, suburban town of pretty privileged kids. And the perpetrators ran the gamut from lily white 13 year old girls to high school boys, some of whom may have been people of color, but definitely not black. Here's why I think this conversation really needs to be...