Joyful Courage - A Conscious Parenting Podcast

Today’s guest is Jason Frelot. Jasen is a community organizer, father, early childhood educator and social justice advocate based in Seattle, WA. Along with directing Columbia City Preschool of Arts and Culture, he is the co-founder of Kids and Race Seattle, which has been featured in Parent Map Magazine and on NPRs Seattle Affiliate KUOW ; the program has served over 500 people to date and rising every month. His various actions around race and social justice have made front page news in Seattle and have been featured on local news numerous times. He has 15 years of working with children in various capacities. “What we are going for here is real change. What we are going for here is a real conversation that is messy. That means diving deeper into that discomfort.” What you’ll hear in this episode: •   Racial identity and the inherent problems with color blindness •    How we are teaching white children to be racist and brown/black children they don’t have value (even though we don’t mean to) •   How to resp