Didn't notice you are in the UK. And I was't speaking of "the talk" necessarily. Just being aware of history and empathetic to others experiences. And learning real history that isn't watered down to protect the feelings of one group of people. Also, being aware of how propping up myths about the past can be harmful to people.

Here in the U.S. it's like this light bulb went off for a lot of White people when George Floyd was killed. All of a sudden they became aware of these issues that they've been blind to for decades. They weren't personally affected, but they had a moment of empathy that I've never seen in my lifetime. It was inspiring but simultaneously disappointing that they had been willfully ignorant for so long.

I'm glad my son is curious for now, especially since his experience should be dramatically less traumatic than mine or my parents. I recently noticed when he asked my in-laws something about slavery. They came to the U.S. from India after the 1965 Immigration Act and it's apparent they have no idea the struggles that Black people went through before that. They probably don't even realize how integral the civil rights movement was in them being able to immigrate here.

My fear now is that we are moving backward because of the political divide in our country. CRT and DEI have become adopted by the right as boogyman terms to paint minorities as being less than and not as qualified as White men for jobs and education. White parents are attacking schools that dare teach that Black people were enslaved and treated poorly for hundreds of years and those Black people actually did not like it. I cannot send my child out into this world naive about his ancestry. He doesn't get that privilege.