The Race Talk Toolkit: How to Start Conversations Your Black Child Needs You to Have

The subject of race never came up in my house growing up. My parents didn't bring it up at dinner, didn't address it when something happened at school, and didn't open that door in any space I can remember, not once. I spent years waiting for one of them to say something, anything, and they never did. What that silence taught me was that my experience wasn't worth discussing, and by the time I was old enough to understand what the silence had been costing me, I had already spent most of my childhood carrying it alone.

The Race Talk Toolkit came out of that experience. It is a practical framework for starting the race conversations your Black child needs you to be having, drawn from decades of knowing what it feels like to grow up with parents who never started them.

What you get inside is direct and useful, with frameworks for starting race conversations at different ages, the specific conversations white parents tend to avoid most, language you can actually use when a moment catches you off guard, guidance on what to do when you say something wrong, and content on how to listen when your child tells you about racism and how to build the kind of trust that makes them willing to bring those moments to you in the first place.

Your child is already thinking about race. They've been thinking about it for a while now, whether you've started the conversation or not. The question is whether they're working through those thoughts with you, or carrying them alone the way I did.

$37 gets you instant digital access. Download it today.