How To Talk Race With Your Family: Ask Code Switch
We asked you to send us your racial conundrums. And in the first 'Ask Code Switch,' we take on a big one: How do you talk to family members whose racial views seem stuck in the Stone Age?
Well, we asked and then you asked. Over the past couple of weeks, dozens of you have responded to our call out — we've gotten letters from all over the country about the complex racial situations people find themselves in.
Our goal? Offer up some advice on America's race problems — from the merely awkward to the downright inappropriate — with a thing we're calling 'Ask Code Switch.'
We got questions about whiteness and wokeness. About fashion and fetishes. Oh, and family. many questions about in-laws, Thanksgiving dinner and parents who.
