Please continue to get comfortable in your vulnerability as we reflect upon and answer the following questions:

1. Racial bias can start as early as 2 1/2 to 3 years of age. How old were you when you had your first conversation about race and racism?
2. Do you have children or young people in your life? Have you engaged with them on the topics of race and racism? Reflect upon the frequency of those conversations? Consider how to normalize discussions on race and racism with the children or young people in your life.
3. Consider your experiential learning on the issue of race and racism. Explore historical sites in your community. Explore ways to engage in the experiential learning process with the children or young people in your life?
4. Black parents have conversations about race and racism with their children at a very young age to prepare them for a racialized society. These conversations aim to sure up or instill positive racial identities to counter the negative narratives in society. Reflect upon how white parents are less likely to have these types of conversations with white children.
5. Consider the fact that white families are less likely to discuss race with their children because it is not critical to their survival.  Reflect and examine your thoughts and feelings after watching the Dear Child – When Black Parents Have to Give “The Talk.”
6. Closely examine your environment. Is diversity well-represented in your literature, art, social circle, etc.? How would your environment be seen by a child or young person?