While the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, in addition to thousands of protests, have sparked new conversations across the country, one thing that's remained for many families is "the talk."
We've had to have what's known in Black culture as "the talk" many times.
For me, as a Black man who's covered these stories for a long time and also gotten the talk from my mother growing up, I think there were two assumptions I had.
I feel like no matter what version of our lives we're in as Black people, as Black mothers, as Black sons, it's always a version of the talk — always.
There's a space that I know a lot of Black boys live in of just, 'Well, then you're just not supposed to like white people.
