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When educating children about rights conflicts with keeping them alive

I want to teach my kids about civil disobedience but I'm terrified that understanding their rights will make them less safe during police encounters because they're Black boys in America.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Racial realities create impossible choices between empowering children with knowledge of their rights and protecting them through strategic deference to authority.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gandhian satyagraha and nonviolent resistance?”

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