Kristen Bell On How White Parents Can Raise 'Anti-Racist' Kids
Kristen Bell is vowing to raise her daughters to be “anti-racist” and is sharing some suggestions with other parents about how they can educate their children, too.
The “Frozen” star said she is leaning into discomfort, as global protests continue over the deaths of George Floyd and others who’ve died in police custody, by opening an honest dialogue with her kids. Bell shares two daughters ― Lincoln, 7, and Delta, 5 ― with her husband Dax Shepard.
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“I’ve been having a lot of conversations with my children about what’s happening right now because I think part of the problem’s discomfort,” Bell said in an interview with Channel Q radio’s “The Morning Beat” on Thursday. “Just because you’re uncomfortable, that can never be the reason that a solution is not found. But I think a lot of people are uncomfortable as to how to talk to kids about it.”
Instead of placing the burden on the Black community, Bell said it’s the responsibility of white Americans to join in tackling these issues head-on.
“They’re trying to survive. We need to figure it out,” she said.
“I showed my daughters some of the images that are happening right now,” she continued. “I think that they have more durability and more resilience than we give them credit for. I showed them specifically the parallel of what was happening in Michigan, where there were white people yelling in the face of cops, holding guns and nothing was happening, versus people that were sitting on the ground protesting peacefully, being tear-gassed.”
Bell, in discussing the stark contrast in how police...
