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When Are Kids Ready to Handle Life's Heavier Issues?
Shawn Taylor writes at Ebony.com that he is prepared to explain to his 6-year-old daughter about the social ills she will confront during her lifetime, arguing that he has taken a firm stance against teaching her from a deficit model. “When di pickney dem growed.” This was my grandmother’s (rest her soul) response to being…
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Villages Don't Raise Children Anymore
Back in the day, neighbors and extended family helped raise children and set them on the right path when they went astray, San Francisco-based author Shawn Taylor recalls at Ebony. Today, much of the black community is splintered, and families have become more fractured and increasingly violence-prone. He asks where we should go next. ……
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When the N-Word Happened to My Kid
Most black people remember the first time they heard the word “nigger,” and it’s rarely a fond memory. For Shawn Taylor, he writes in Ebony that he was with his daughter when someone used the word toward him and burst the bubble he’d created to keep hate speech away from his child. There’s no reason…
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What I Did When My Child Heard the N-Word
Ebony‘s Shawn Taylor explains how he adjusted the “race talk” with his daughter after she heard someone hurl a racist slur at him. At nearly 5, our daughter is culturally anchored. She’s eaten the food, heard and sang the songs, been with family, traveled, and has been exposed to the languages. She has never been,…
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