Yet again, I do talk to my child about race and racism. I don’t talk to her about police brutality. Yet.

I mean, I agree. It is nice to have that privilege. But it’s still protecting my child from something I don’t think any child of that age should be learning about unless they have no choice.

None of those things sound like things she would do... She already knows those things are wrong. It’s almost like you know nothing about my child, isn’t it?

Look, I’m disabled and bed-ridden most of the time. What do you want me to do, start calling random phone numbers and having frank chats about racism and privilege?

I think some of them honestly do. Or that they think I should be showing her footage of beatings right now or something. My dad showed me fucking Shoah at age six to teach me a lesson about bigotry and hatred. All it did was give me nightmares for a decade.

How nice of you to let someone else’s children get in trouble with cops for things you want.

Please do come up with a lesson plan for me.

I said hopefully. How does that mean I assumed anything? And I think all kids are too delicate at six to learn about police brutality, which is why it breaks my heart that some have to anyway.

I don’t understand. Are you saying she would be better in a segregated school?

I’m not teaching her that, the school is teaching her that. She’s in first grade. I’m not going to tell her to go to the school police officer and tell him that he’s not her friend because he beats up black people. Which is exactly what she would do.

Good luck explaining any of that to a six-year-old.

Like I said, it breaks my heart. I can’t change that. I have zero power to change that. I am no one and nothing. All I can do is say I’m so sorry.

Do you mean to come across as rude?

Please explain to me how it helps a six-year-old to know about police brutality.

She has empathy and she is taught about racism by myself and hopefully her teacher as well considering how diverse her class is.

I do have honest discussions with my daughter about racism. Just not about police brutality. Yet.

Yeah, we do our best to let her know that people of color have been and still are treated very poorly by white people in this country, and that skin color should never be something to judge a person by and, to her credit, she seems to honestly not care what color skin her friends have... except that she sometimes…

Oh for fuck’s sake... I hope she was royally reamed for that.

I think it means he/she is not really able to understand what a child her age is capable of comprehending.

And I admitted that in my first post, so what’s your point?