I was with my kids on Saturday morning, and there was a burning car from one of the protests—I can’t remember which one—on the TV. My 5-year-old, like a lot of little boys, thinks fire is cool, and asked me what was going on.
That stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t really know what to say. He’s still too young to comprehend what’s happening, so I just told him what he was seeing on the screen was really bad, and he moved on with whatever he was doing, like kids do. And then I thought about how much more complicated that conversation would be for some of my friends.