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Monday, September 5, 2016
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
As If Parenting is Not Hard Enough
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/7-things-i-can-do-that-my-black-son-cant-99408985077.html
By Calvin Hennick
The writer with his son. Photo courtesy of Calvin Hennick.
In the days after the Michael Brown shooting, I wrote an essay titled “I Hope My Son Stays White,” detailing my fears about what might happen to my biracial three-year-old son if he grows up to have dark skin. The upshot: America, to its shame, is still a place where black males are feared, and I don’t want that fear to turn itself on my son in a way that leads to his arrest or death.
I published the piece on Ebony.com, and the reactions from black readers ranged from “sad but true” to allegations that I myself was engaging in the very racism and colorism that I was decrying. But buried among these was a comment from a white reader who accused me of “sucking up to black folk” and then went on to list the supposed advantages of being black in America. (Apparently, according to this reader, my son will have an unearned fast track to a career as an air traffic controller. Um, okay?)
Thursday, September 18, 2014
It's Your Second Chance to Enjoy Georgian Culture, Food, Music and Art.
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