Advice That I Could Never Give a Black Man
My childhood had provided to me the illusionary idea that ‘racism didn’t exist’
My childhood had provided to me the illusionary idea that ‘racism didn’t exist’
The adjective ‘sick’ is barely enough to describe my emotions as images of wailing mothers, like those of slain youth Trayvon and Jordan, grasp each other’s weak arms – both aching in pain of losing a child to senseless murder.
But, unlike Newtown or its Sandy Hook community, children and residents in Bridgeport know the fear and presence of violence due a very small percent of citizens who commit the majority of the crimes.