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Posted: 2020-10-10T00:13:00Z | Updated: 2020-10-10T00:13:00Z

The Talk. Not an easy project. Its uncomfortable, occasionally awkward and impossible to avoid doing eventually. Im not thinking about the whole birds-and-the-bees thing here (though that is, in its own right, a very challenging conversation, too). Im thinking about the talk about race: that unfortunate, compulsory discussion Black parents are intimately familiar with having, over and over again.

The funny thing about race is that the world often forces you to have those conversations a lot earlier than you want to, a parent told HuffPost Canada last September . No matter the year, it doesnt get easier.

Do white parents have these same conversations? Do they teach their kids what racism means how to identify and combat it? If not, Mattel yes, the toy manufacturing company has gotten behind an effort at sparking the conversation among kids, through a three-minute webisode in which Barbie and her friend Nikki broach the subject of racism as simply as they can.

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