In a recent interview, Nick Cannon opened up about a conversation he had to have with his three kids: 'the stay alive talk'. 'I made a statement that my children fear police. And it's a real statement.'
, Cannon broke down a conversation he says many black parents have with their children, one he calls the"stay alive talk."
The father continued:"I try to teach fearlessness. I try to teach that you have a power within you that you need to fear nothing. But when they see the energy of law enforcement, it's, 'Uh, oh, here comes the police!' Or that mindset of, 'Sit up straight! Don't talk! Keep your hands where they can see them!' These are things that I'm talking to a three-year-old about or a nine-year-old about and they bring those questions to me.
Cannon said that conversations about policing between parents and their children is a part of black culture—and that his parents had the same talks with him when he was young. Cannon then described his family's history of distrust with law enforcement. Cannon—who earned his degree in Criminology from Howard University last month—believes it's time to reconstruct how law enforcement works and that police should work in the communities in which they live.
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