Nailed It! Host Nicole Byer Explains How White Parents Can Teach Their Kids About Black Lives Matter
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Nicole Byer, host of Netflix‘s Nailed It!, shared a lengthy message to her Instagram followers on Tuesday, which offered guidance on how parents can speak to their white children about the Black Lives Matter movement.
She began:
“Hi hello I’m Nicole. I host a tv show called @nailedit a lot of kids watch the show. In an Instagram comment someone said they would ‘keep their head down and just let their kids watch nailed it.’ (I turned off the comments so ya can’t find it and attack that person also dunno their ethnicity or anything about them)”
Instead of clapping back at the commenter, the 33-year-old stressed how you can use the show to foster “a conversation… with your white child.” She continued:
“A good way to explain to kids #blacklivesmatter : ‘you like this black lady right? She’s silly? She makes you tee hee hee?You would be sad if a police officer hurt her right? Well this is the current country we live in where someone you like can be hurt by the color of their skin and people in charge aren’t doing a f**king (you can replace that with dang if ya kids are soft) thing about it. So they are protesting, and the looters… well some of it is staged as a distraction some are opportunistic and some are people who’ve been oppressed for so long it bursts.’”
As far as the police, Byer spoke out about the ongoing “violence against black and brown people” and lack of “nice cops” on the force:
“‘And nice cops? There are no nice cops because if a cop was nice they wouldn’t watch and participate in violence against black and brown people. If cops were really nice they would have spoken out about police brutality years ago and maybe walked out on their precincts to send a message that they are against this. Instead they dress up like your GI Joe doll and are very mean. The curfews the helicopters the police in riot gear is all because black people have asked to not be killed… that’s it. There’s literally nothing else to it.’”
Nicole also encouraged parents to educate their children on topics not traditionally covered in school, and to share amongst the parents in your circle in hopes they’ll do the same:
“Now once a week let’s read about s**t (stuff for the soft kids) that happens to black people that doesn’t get covered in schools like Juneteenth, black Wall Street, how black people have influenced most of pop culture today and aren’t credited or it’s just co-oped… and if you do this post about. Post about the black history you teach your white kid to maybe inspire another white parent to do the same thing.”
The former Girl Code star powerfully concluded:
“There I did it you can read it verbatim to your kids. Also I’m open to any additions.
Raise kids who give a f**k and you gotta give a f**k #blacklivesmatter”
Ch-ch-check out her full message (below):
Have U had a similar conversation with your kids about the movement and what is happening on the news??
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