{"id":521214,"date":"2021-05-18T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521214"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:21:02","slug":"actress-learning-to-have-conversations-with-one-year-old-about-racism-it-starts-with-her-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-learning-to-have-conversations-with-one-year-old-about-racism-it-starts-with-her-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress \u2018Learning\u2019 To Have Conversations With One-Year-Old About Racism: \u2018It Starts With Her Dolls\u2019 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factress-learning-to-have-conversations-with-one-year-old-about-racism-it-starts-with-her-dolls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1205205172.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"53.517857142857\">\n<p>\u201cPretty Little Liars\u201d actress Shay Mitchell says she\u2019s \u201clearning\u201d how to talk to her one-year-old daughter about racism, starting with her child\u2019s toys.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, who recently gave birth to a little girl named Atlas Noa Babel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/life\/a36410826\/shay-mitchell-baby-pregnancy\/\">told<\/a> Women\u2019s Health magazine that she and her partner Matte Babel are already focusing on talking racism with their toddler.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on anti-Asian racism in the wake of the China-originated COVID-19 pandemic, Mitchell told the magazine: \u201cMatte is half white\u2014his dad is from Trinidad. And Atlas is a mix of all of us. But she\u2019s very fair-skinned and has light eyes and hair, so she doesn\u2019t look like either of us,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re learning how to have those appropriate conversations. It starts with her dolls, with the toys she plays with, and the books we read to her, that have all different colors and ethnicities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michell, who is half-white and half-Filipino, said her parents and herself have personally experienced racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something my mom has dealt with her whole life,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen she and my dad were dating in the 1980s in Toronto, their relationship was looked down upon. On the bus with my dad, she would get the worst looks. They would tell me about going into a restaurant and people not serving them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also saw it in real life,\u201d the actress continued. \u201cMy mom would get derogatory remarks like, \u2018Are you the cleaning lady? Are you the nanny?\u2019 And she was like, \u2018No, but what is your issue if I was?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn school I was bullied\u2014I\u2019d get questions like, \u2018Are you going to go clean the bathrooms?&#8217;\u201d Mitchell revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals have increasingly pushed conversations of race upon children \u2014 even babies as young as three months old.<\/p>\n<div class=\"htlad-SM_300x250_2\">\n<div id=\"htlad-7\" class=\"htl-ad htlunit-SM_300x250_2 htl-size-300x250\" data-unit=\"SM_300x250_2\" data-sizes=\"0x0:300x250,325x204,325x508|970x0:300x250,620x366\" data-prebid=\"0x0:mobile_SM_300x250_2,SM_300x250_2|970x0:desktop_SM_300x250_2,SM_300x250_2\" data-refresh=\"viewable\" data-refresh-secs=\"30\" readability=\"10.832335329341\">\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CI-Nl-Or0_ACFWG3swod6uUPpQ\" readability=\"25.15603923973\">\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/your-3-month-old-might-be-racist-the-department-of-education-is-here-to-help\">The Daily Wire<\/a> in March, Arizona\u2019s Department of Education is reportedly offering an \u201cequity\u201d toolkit to help you tamp down your child\u2019s racism:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>Journalist Christopher F. Rufo exposed the ideological \u201cequity\u201d toolkit within the department\u2019s diversity program that claims babies can develop signs of racism at just three months old and should be talked to about race even before they can talk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSilence about race reinforces racism by letting children draw their own conclusions based on what they see,\u201d the program states, outlining a graphic titled, \u201cThey\u2019re not too young to talk about race!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Chrissy Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-education-department-tells-parents-to-talk-about-racism-with-3-month-olds\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>The graphic shows the linear aging of a child and details how parents should talk about race and racism at each stage of their childhood. Parents are told to talk to their three-month-olds about racism because \u201cbabies look more at faces that match the race of their caregivers.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the age of two, the graphic claims that children use race \u201cto reason about people\u2019s behaviors\u201d and, by 30 months, they allegedly use race to choose their friends. By ages four and five, children allegedly become racially prejudiced.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to the graphic, by the time children reach kindergarten they can become full-blown racists. Kindergarteners allegedly \u201cshow many of the same racial attitudes that adults in our culture hold \u2014 they have already learned to associate some groups with higher status than others.\u201d Parents are encouraged to have conversations with kindergarteners to discuss how interracial friendships can improve their racial attitudes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CI-Nl-Or0_ACFWG3swod6uUPpQ\" readability=\"10.679611650485\">\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPretty Little Liars\u201d actress Shay Mitchell says she\u2019s \u201clearning\u201d how to talk to her one-year-old daughter about racism, starting with her child\u2019s toys.Mitchell, who recently gave birth to a little &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278404,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1205205172.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Actress \u2018Learning\u2019 To Have Conversations With One-Year-Old About Racism: \u2018It Starts With Her Dolls\u2019 \u00a0","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1205205172.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Actress \u2018Learning\u2019 To Have Conversations With One-Year-Old About Racism: \u2018It Starts With Her Dolls\u2019 \u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}