Apps, Afros, and Handcuffs: Talking With Kids About Race  What
Women Really Think July 1 2010 4:10 PM  Apps, Afros, and
Handcuffs: Talking With Kids About Race  I've promised before to
start talking openly with my kids about race. After reading
NurtureShock and other research , I'm convinced that the common
parental policy of "colorblindness" teaches kids only that race
and skin color are things we don't discuss-filled with secrets
and mystery. I've vowed to take a more open road-but I've been
waiting, as one does, for the right moment.  Of course, there's
no shortage of evidence that the parents of many Americans
waited too long. If we're supposed to be blind to differences of
skin color, the (white) police of Hartford, Vt. didn't get the
memo-a few weeks ago, they gave one of our (black) neighbors the
Skip Gates treatment, and then some. A teacher in Seattle was
certainly blind to something, although apparently not race, when
she threw an 8-year-old out of her honors class at Thurgood
Marshall Elementary Sc