The New "Talk" - School Shootings

Another View The Radio Show Podcast · Sep 4, 2025 · 54m

For many African American parents and their children, the "talk" - how Black children are to act when interacting with police - is a necessary rite of passage especially as teens begin to drive. Now parents, regardless of race or ethnicity, are having a new "talk" — this time on how to prepare for a school shooting. The numbers vary depending on the criteria used to define a school shooting, but according to the K-12 School Database, there have been 146 incidents at schools in 2025, including the most recent in Minneapolis, where a gunman killed two students and injured 17 others before…