[Holmes:] Welcome back. Across America, parents are having tough conversations with their kids about racism and injustice. Mike Galanos talks to three families to see how they're handling it.
[Mike Galanos, Cnn Correspondent:] Lolita Jackson is a mom to a 13-year-old black teen. Alduan Tartt is a father of two black daughters, their ages are 14 and 4. And Kellee Casper is a mom to 19-year-old biracial twins. She's also a mom to a 9- and 11-year old and those two children are white. All three parents talking to their children about race and racism in America.
[Alduan Tartt, Father Of Two:] For our 14-year old, she brought the conversation to me because she was flooded on her Instagram and TikTok accounts with the videos of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. She was irate of how these things could happen in present day America and then started talking about civil rights and how things had to change.
[Lolita Jackson, Jackson Family:] As a 13-year-old right now I will say the conversations are a bit heavier. He has experienced that bias and he has observed it happen.
[Kellee Casper, Mother Of Four:] Our conversations with our biracial sons are definitely aimed more towards, how do we keep you safe? We've talked to them about being overcompliant, overcooperative with police officers. We don't have to have these same conversations with our younger two white children and that's unfortunate.
[Tartt:] An African American child hears this. In their heart it's this is not fair. What follows? What do you do as a parent? You can't say well, that's not real, that's an isolated event. You have to be able to say, you know what, racism is real, that at any point in time, that can happen.
[Casper:] The question, what if John and Jalen were arrested, would this happen to them, would they end up murdered or treated differently? And we just say there is a chance that if they were arrested, they would be treated differently because of the color of their skin. We explain to them not everyone has the same heart as us but it's up to us to change the hearts of people who hold hate inside.
[Jackson:] We would like our white friends and colleagues to have conversations with their children, too, because they will be treated differently. They'll be treated with a privilege but to use that privilege in a positive way, to use that privilege to stop the racism happening among their African American friends.
[Casper:] Please make this personal. The impression of black people has to become personal. If you continue to live in a white bubble and not expose your kids to diversity, they will always see black people as different.
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