Whether mass violence is racialized or not, the steps you should take to comfort kids are similar.

Like many first-generation Chinese immigrants, I have been dealing with COVID-19 since early January, first indirectly and then directly. As one of my Chinese friends joked, from mid-March onward is but our “second-half.”

This is not a talk about kindness in general, or the beauty of diversity, or how we can celebrate our differences, though those talks are also important. The talk I am speaking of is much harder for White parents to have. It is the truth about bias and racism and how we all have it.

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The numbers tell the story of the pandemic's disparate impact on Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color.

Here's what you can do it about it.

She's brown, he's Black and they want to adopt. They assume they'll be matched with a Black or brown baby and feel less prepared for what actually happens.

What do the COVID "numbers" tell us this month?