{"id":39571,"date":"2015-05-01T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=39571"},"modified":"2015-05-04T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T13:32:45","slug":"talking-kids-about-baltimore-freddie-gray-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/talking-kids-about-baltimore-freddie-gray-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Your Kids About The Baltimore Freddie Gray Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days have been unsettling. My parents live in St. Louis, and I felt very connected to the events in Ferguson this summer. Now, with the recent turmoil in Baltimore, where we lived until a little over a month ago, I\u2019ve been having a strong sense of <em>deja vu<\/em>. Many of the sentiments I\u2019ve seen online these past few days could\u2019ve been taken verbatim from posts eight months ago. The same words. The same judgments. The same frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after we moved to Baltimore, I was taking a walk in our neighborhood, the Park Heights area, with the two children I had at the time. As I pushed my two young boys in the double stroller, a tall black youth walked toward us. He looked like what some people might call a \u201cthug,\u201d with tattoos, baggy pants, a tank top, and baseball cap. The uncharitable thought, \u201cI hope he doesn\u2019t mug me,\u201d crossed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>When we were very close to one another, my boys exuberantly waved and greeted him with a loud, \u201cHi!\u201d The young black man gave them a glorious smile and waved back, greeting them with an equally friendly, if quieter, \u201cHi,\u201d of his own.<\/p>\n<p>I was moved by the innocence and lack of prejudice my children displayed. At that moment, I had an intense desire to make sure that they maintained that openness, that ability to see past the cultural differences of our neighbors to see a person worth saying \u201chi\u201d to. I haven\u2019t spoken with my children about what happened in Ferguson, or what\u2019s happening in Baltimore. They\u2019re very young and oblivious to it. But if I were to speak to them, this is what I would tell them.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/what-i-want-to-tell-my-kids-about-the-baltimore-freddie-gray-riots\/\">Kveller<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days have been unsettling. My parents live in St. Louis, and I felt very connected to the events in Ferguson this summer. Now, with the recent turmoil in Baltimore, where we lived until a little over a month ago, I\u2019ve been having a strong sense of deja vu. 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