How To Talk To Your White Children About George Floyd

Last night, Kendrick and I were talking about Christian Cooper – the man who videotaped a white woman in Central Park flipping her lid and telling the cops that “an African-American man” was “threatening” her, despite the fact that he was demonstrably doing nothing of the sort – and George Floyd, whose story is so heartbreaking it defies description. About how easily the former story could have taken the the turn that the latter’s did. Our son overheard us, and started asking questions. We answ...