Raising a Black Son in White America

 


How do you teach your Black Son how to thrive in a
country where modern day Jim Crow laws and the
school-to-prison pipeline are very serious realities?


Randi B and I both know from personal experience that rearing a
black son is a daunting task in and of itself. Couple that with
raising him in a world that ridicules, dishonors and 
discounts him simply because  of the color of his skin, and
you have an even greater challenge on your hands.


In today’s episode take a deep dive into how black moms don’t
have the luxury of being being soft when it comes to raising our
boys because we’re too busy trying to save them from the world
that literally wants to kill him for just breathing.


I shared with her  how In my efforts to teach my son how to be a
man, I was constantly focusing on all the things he shouldn’t be
doing AND what I didn’t want to happen to him.   I didn’t want
him to become like the boys he often kept company with. I didn’t
want the streets to get him!  I didn’t want
to lose him to drugs.  I was always telling him
what he shouldn’t do… what he couldn’t do.  I rarely (if
ever) told him what he could do. I was so afraid that he
would fail, til the possibility of success never even crossed my
mind!


If you have a black son or know someone who does, you do not want
to miss this episode.  It’s a good one, peeps!


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