This happened to me, a Black clinical psychologist. The supervisor was a white male psychiatrist in his early 70s. I was horrified. But I was so flustered I answered his question like it was no big deal & then raged internally for several weeks. I can’t tell you how many microaggressions I’ve responded to in the same way. Being socialized as a Black woman not to make too many waves continuously gets the best of me.

How does trying to give the best for your kids make you part of the problem? Society works when parents raise good kids?

Is there Indian, Asian, privilege since they make more than whites?

Do you think that culture plays a role considering black kids are 2-3x more likely to not know their dad?

Teaching your kids that they are privileged is good, but how does that help blacks?

A couple, though, may also apply to poor families and single-parent families of any race or ethnic background, such as the ones where teachers expect parents to be involved in their child’s learning by being available, both by phone and in person, during the school day and therefore the work day.

For the most part, this is really insightful and much needed. Most white people don’t think about these things. Bravo!

Very true! I’m a white parent of a mixed-race child myself. I have privilege. She has privilege too. Obviously privileges are different based on the exact combination of backgrounds – and parents are fairly capable of applying information that does relate to their situation.

Thank for this second comment, N – It’s not that I’m not going to publish critical comments; rather than I’m one person who works more than full-time hours creating free resources for you and sometimes I get behind on things like approving comments. There were some complimentary comments in the queue that were older than yours.

You are correct that I had mistaken 2017 data for 2018 data; this was because the article I drew from was dated 2018 and mentioned “this year” when referencing 2017 data, which I didn’t catch. I have updated this in the blog post.

I believe your error stating that 11.7% of books are about African Americans results from U.S. publishers only rather than all publishers, which does still come in at 11% rather than 10% so I have again updated this in the blog post. The overall point about there being WAY more books published about animals than about African Americans is unaffected by this change.

Thank you for caring enough to fact-check this data.

Jen

(PS half these arguments just sound like the USA needs a better health system…)