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> Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) ab
by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police.
A minor but significant adjustment:
Average black parents worry about both
- foxfired 6y agoLet's put it like this. Everyone worries about criminals, to the point that a mother will always tell you to be careful when you go out. But when I went out, my mother (and elders in our community) would say specifically, may God protect you from the police. That is a significant statement.
- bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago> Everyone worries about criminals. Patently false. It wasn't until I went to an elite, mostly white, almost exclusively upper-middle-class-and-above college that I learned this. Anyone — especially any minority — who grew actually up in urban poverty understands this well. If your memory needs refreshing or if you're the kind of "pick me" minority favored by the sort of elite whites who populate this platform, maybe listen to Mos Def's "Beef" on repeat for a few hours to pick up some of the flavor. The whites will love it.