Raising Honest Black Girls in The Era of White Male Fraudulence

[NCTraveler]

Honesty is the first line of defense in the battle against assaults on your personhood. The equity you create with your words and subsequent deeds are your credit. Who you are and what you be are intrinsically linked in the assessment of the value of what it is you say and how seriously it’s taken.

That’s what we have to teach our children.

That’s especially what we have to teach our Black and brown girls who will become Black and brown women.

That’s the battle we’re fighting at the dinner table and beyond.

https://fatherlynoir.com/2017/03/13/raising-honest-black-girls-in-the-era-of-white-male-fraudulence/

[EffieBlack]

1. Thanks for this

Truth

[Me.]

2. +

[Sailor65x1]

3. Here's an alternate thought

Parents raise their children to understand the value and importance of honesty, period, and and that bad behavior in others does no justify bad behavior in them. Imagine...

[NCTraveler]

4. Some won't even try to understand. Not even the slightest of effort.

[oberliner]

5. This article is from over a year ago

Any particular reason why you are posting it now?

[NCTraveler]

6. I just read it.

Sorry you had already read it so long ago. Didn’t mean to waste your time by tricking you into reading it a second time.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Thanks for posting and, too, because I haven't seen this blog before.

"Or, put simply, I may be actively harming my own children by holding them to an obsolete standard. My daughters might be disadvantaged not just because they are Black or because they are female, but because they seek virtue in honesty and traffic in truth in a world where bullshit is the new gold standard."