Bitter exes who just want to stunt on the other. Thumbs Up and popcorn ready.

I’d love to hear someone tell a white woman that she always has the option to shave her head to get a job. Sounds totally reasonable, right?

“Like I said, it breaks my heart. I can’t change that. I have zero power to change that... All I can do is say I’m so sorry”

“But it is still my firm opinion that six years old is too young to be taught about police brutality unless it is something necessary to be taught”

First of all, I didn’t say anything about not having an age approprate discussion. Secondly, there’s a difference between having an age appropriate discussion and saying nothing. The OP is rationalizing saying nothing.

You should tell her sooner rather than later (which, as a non parent, I can only assume would be super easy :-/). White people who grow up thinking the police are “good” are as big a problem as the police themselves.

This time? Yes. I thought your reply was rude as fuck and adjusted my reply accordingly. To be honest, I thought I did a damn good job of holding back. I should have been more rude in my reply.

If she gets in trouble I say, “Good!!” From the mouths of babes and all that. The cops - even in your heavenly neck of the woods - need to hear it. They need to be confronted with what their colleagues are doing in less peaceful hamlets. They need to keep that little white girl in their head when they talk to cops…

Six years old is certainly not too young to understand what privilege is.

How is it not necessary ? Also, why so you assume that because there are some minorities in her classroom that the teacher is being progressive about racial issues and teaching the children about race? I thought the (white) kids were too delicate for such issues at that age.

Ahhh. So because YOU don’t see any problems with race in your “highly integrated” school, there aren’t any.

I have two sons, and I always told them the plain, unvarnished truth about life. You are actually perpetuating racism by teaching your white daughter she has nothing to worry about from cops.

And six-year-old children of color? They are exposed to the ugliness of the world simply by virtue of being of color. What say you to those children?

Tell her the damn truth. For God’s sake, you’re not actually helping.

Your cries about not wanting to expose your daughter to the world’s ugliness sounds hollow when Black children younger than she is are already exposed to it. You bristling at someone wondering why you don’t tell your child the truth screams of the attitude that allows this to continue because the ugliness only happens…

Minority kids are capable of learning it. Your crack about how people “must not be parents” is totally off base and dismissive.

“Didn’t I pretty much say as much in my original comment? Of course she’s privileged”

I didn’t mean my comment to tell you you’re parenting wrong, because that’s a Douchemove™. More to back up your comment about The Talk, and how young children of color are when many receive it.

Well that’s a very white position to take. Black people would love to be able to do the same; unfortunately we can’t lock our children up in the house until they’re 18 so they get exposed to the ugliness very early.

“The video doesn’t corroborate our story, but trust us, it’s our story that’s right and not the video. Because video, much like science and the female orgasm, is a just a bunch of lies.”