A recent comment on Ed’s blog Black Males Are Lagging Academically refers to “the heartbreaking moment when a child discovers he is Black”. I think my Asian daughter had a similar experience this past month. At a recent meeting of adoptive parents, we heard the speaker say, again, that parents of color prepare their children for racism before it happens and we should do the same. We were all resistant, saying we didn’t want to put it into our children’s heads that bad things would happen, maybe it would be a while yet, we live in a largely Asian city, … Continue reading →