Kim Kardashian On Teaching Her Children About Race: ‘I Want Them To Know Their Lives Matter'

Kim Kardashian has opened up about how her family approach the subject of race, admitting that she and her husband, Kanye West, discuss it every day in their household so that their two children will grow up with a sense of their different backgrounds.

Admitting three-year-old daughter North is too young to understand ethnicity, Kim expressed her concerns about her children growing up in an ignorant and racist society.

Speaking to Elle.com, she explained: “We talk about race in America every single day in our house. The topic really does get broached, somehow, every single day.

"Kanye’s just really vocal and I definitely know that our kids will grow up having a really good sense of their different backgrounds.

"I know Kanye is so excited to talk to them about how he grew up. As a little kid, they don’t grasp how they might be different from other little kids. They don’t understand colour, or background, and that’s why children are so amazing.

"But as they get older, we plan on talking to them a lot about where they came from. I want them to know their lives matter. I want them to feel safe in this world. Will they?

"I hope so. But that depends on all of us, doesn’t it?”

Kim, who is also mum to seven-month-old Saint, has always been a vocal supporter of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and recently penned an emotional essay about her two children, admitting her fears.

Responding to the tragic shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Kim wrote: “This week we watched Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two innocent black men, get senselessly murdered by police officers.

"Like a lot of you guys, I watched the videos, and was appalled and completely heartbroken. I was left speechless, angry and numb.

"I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter.

"I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police, or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust - the people who ‘protect and serve’ - may not be protecting and serving him because of the colour of his skin.”

Kim previously spoke out about her daughter being racially abused on a plane when she was just an infant.