How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
“That the book has found new life in 2020 in the wake of the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd and Black Lives Matters protests is a testament to how parents want to educate their children”
When Michael Tyler’s oldest son Sascha was 5, he came home from school crying.
Someone had called him a name, and while Sascha didn’t understand the name, he knew it was bad because of the way everyone around him had reacted.
Tyler, who is Black, thought he was prepared for everything his mixed-race son would ask him. Until that moment.
He started to scour children’s books for one he could read to a 5-year-old to explain about skin color and why some people think it matters. He read 347 children’s books before he stopped and wrote his own.