“I started seeing all these articles about how to have The Talk with your kids. Meaning black parents, with black kids, who have no choice but to have The Talk.” “Q’s dad gave him The Talk when he was seven.” “My parents don’t even know that a thing like The Talk exists. Whenever yet another kid gets shot, all they do is shake their heads, yell about systemic racist policies and the prison industrial complex, and get all fired up about equal rights—but then it always ends with You should feel lucky you don’t have to ever worry about this.” I don’t
