What do White parents teach their children about Black people?

Answer 1

Just like you are not able to speak on behalf of all black parents and what they teach about white people, no one on here can speak on behalf of all white people.

This is a ridiculous question that is probably being asked by someone who thinks white and black people should be treated differently. No one should ever try to make a statement about a group of people based on their skin color. Socio-economic status, education, and religion all tell us more about a person than the color of their skin ever could.

Answer 2

Depends the people. Most good parents wont even have to teach anything. Children arent born racist, so they wont have any problems being friends with children of other races. They usually learn about slavery and some of the terrible things that happened in school. Although lets say a parent who is in the KKK, well they might be teaching their children something else.

Answer 3

I don't recall ever being told anything about black people and yet I didn't come out racist. (There are hardly any black people in Australia which is probably why.)
BTW I do wonder about the answer from the lady who said something about what toys children are supposed to play with. I really hope you don't keep snatching dolls away from your little boy, you're just going to end up giving him a complex. Kids should be able to play with whatever age-appropriate toy they want. They ought to be taught that all people are equal even though we're all different. Not everyone can do everything, some people are smarter, some people are better at being friendly etc...

Answer 4

I think that is a very unfair and "generalized" question. That would be like asking "What do Black people teach their kids about White people?", "What do Asians teach their kids about American Indians?" , etc. PEOPLE teach their children, and no matter WHAT RACE, INDIVIDUALS teach what THEY think and believe. I am VERY mixed up, Cherokee, Black Dutch, German, Irish, Bohemian, Scandinavian, and God only knows what else! I teach my children that we should ALWAYS treat other people the way we want them to treat us. If we put out bad, mean, rude, and hateful, then we should NOT EXPECT it to be treated with kindness and respect. We have to give it to receive it. At the same time, though, I do not owe anybody anything. I am NOT responsible for the past and should not be held accountable for the way things were 200+ years ago! We should be working TOGETHER to build our future, OUR CHILDREN. Keeping them ALL safe and and teaching them to be respectful of themselves and others.

Answer 5

I teach my kids to love all of God's people. We live in a community that has a history of not being accepting to black people and I make sure I am adament in explaining how ignorant these people are that say things about someone JUST because they're black! Without ever even knowing the person, sometimes without even meeting the person! I tell my kids about the history of how black people were once treated as if they were less (much less) than our ancestors were because of the color of their skin. I think it is terribly sad when I read about or hear from someone that has lived through those times. It breaks my heart. We have a neighbor that is white and took in his bi-racial grandchildren to raise them. The grandpa is a very good, kindhearted man, as is his wife. Their granddaughter is a teenager and is going through her normal teenage years (which she would be going through even if she were white!) and the youngest is 8 yrs old and he's a boy. He is on my son's baseball team and he comes over and plays all of the time and he's a pretty decent kid. Anyways, a couple of days ago, their garage was set on fire! They are thinking it was an intentionally set fire and also someone had been stealing gas from their garage for some time. They also had their dog stolen and the person that stole their dog continued riding back and forth in front of their house for a few days. We live on a dead end road so they had to keep turning around, which made no since! All of the other neighbors (all white) leave their garages open and never have anything missing! I don't understand... Could there really be someone targeting them because they have their grandchildren living with them?! It seems strange to me, but I don't know anything for sure! It's hard to imagine this happening in 2007 but I honestly think it is! Also, a little girl who was in my daugthers class (1st gd) had a little girl tell her she wasn't allowed to play with her because her mommy said because she has brown skin she can't play with her!!! That made me VERY mad! This child is precious too! I told my daughter (who is sort of a leader in her class) to make sure she continued to play with her and to love her just the way that she always had and I prayed that others would follow her. As a white person, I am embarrassed at how my race can discriminate against another human being with such little regard to that person's feelings! I love my white race and I love the black race and I love the hispanic race... I love all of God's children and I pray that everyone else will too. The one thing I can say in favor of the black race is when you look at your local sex offender registry, how many are white? how many are black? That, to me is scary!

Answer 6

I've never had to "teach" them anything. My youngest daughter was scared when she saw a black person, she was five and we lived in a very small town at the time and had never seen a darker skinned person and she thought they were hurt. I did have to explain that African Americans live all over the place and there's nothing wrong with them and they're just like her and I. That was really the end of the conversation. We've moved and she now has African American friends and my 2 babies are in a play group where they have little african american friends so I doubt there will be any explaining anything to them now. What do you suggest we teach them? I'm not being sarcastic I'm quite interested.

Answer 7

My parents told me that God made everyone and that there is a variety of skin color which is beautiful and everyone should be proud of their skin color. They said that every nationality has smart people and not so smart people. It never interred my mind that anyone could hate or be mean because someone was a different color. When living in Chicago we moved & my parents sold the house to an incredable black family. We got stones thrown through our windows and nasty threats. My parents stood firm in the sale of the house. I was horrified that anyone could be so racest. It was beyond comprehension. Eventually the black family gave up and bought another house.

I taught my children that color in people is special and beautiful. My children never ever questioned that someone of another color or nationality were any different than anyone else. There are people out there who believe all people are respected and honored for who they are and where they are from. There are good and bad people in all colors and nationalities.

I fell in love with a wonderful black man. He is the most amazing man I have ever met. I would love him if he were purple or green or whatever. To me his black is beautiful.

Answer 8

I grew up on military bases around the world and our neighborhood was always a rainbow. (smile). So all the kids of all colors played together, so there really was no teaching.

And as a parent, my son was brought up in a college town where most of the children had intelligent parents...again, there was not alot of discussion in our household. My son had friends of all ethnic backgrounds. He did not even know that people differentiated people based on color until he was in the fifth grade - and he learned this at school, not at home.

Color was never discussed in our household. However, values and morals were. My brother and I were taught to choose friends wisely based on their character and morals, and we have passed that same teaching on to our children as well.

Answer 9

In my family we dont teach our kids hate at all. And if they ever did ask why is he/she black then we simply say thats the way there made, and why are we white.
But since were on the topic i wounder what african americans say about white people? The reason i ask is, many times when i go out they give dirty looks like they cant stand white people. I dont know if its from the past (slavery) and are you asking this because you teach your kids differently

Answer 10

I cant speak for everyone, but obviously kids are gonna see as they grow older that people come in many shapes and colors, to us we did not bring the color difference to our children's attention until they came to us. we wanted them to see people ,not color. we teach them things based upon our experience and the type of person we want our children to be. First of we teach them to never call any one out of their name for it is disrespectful, and to get respect you have to give it . I am not black , but the best thing we can do when our kids ask questions is to tell them the facts. if we need help ,we take them to the library or we have black family members we let them talk to . I don't let others influence their ignorance on my children or at least we try we cant change the past and none of us can change our color, where we came from. and we certainly cant apologize for our ancestors mistakes , but it is our fault if we don't learn from it and correct it through our children because they learn from us.