I am divorced with two sons, ages 19 and 11. I know that each is trying to
find his place in a society that is increasingly multicultural but whose power base remains white. As young black men they struggle with the stereotypicaF images of what being black means in America. This is particularly true for
my older son, who learned bitterly what it meant to be black when, as a young boy of 11, he was stopped by campus police at a Midwest university and escorted off campus because he did not belong there. He was afraid to tell them that his father was the vice president. My younger son, to my knowledge, has not yet experienced racism at its ugliest. He remains open and accepting of others. He hates talk of black people and white people and proudly proclaims that all people are the same. For him, the important quality in a person is whether he or she is nice.
I am divorced with two sons, ages 19 and 11. I know that each is trying tofind his place in a society that is increasingly multicultural but whose power base remains white. As young black men they struggle with the stereotypicaF images of what being black means in America. This is particularly true formy older son, who learned bitterly what it meant to be black when, as a young boy of 11, he was stopped by campus police at a Midwest university and escorted off campus because he did not belong there. He was afraid to tell them that his father was the vice president. My younger son, to my knowledge, has not yet experienced racism at its ugliest. He remains open and accepting of others. He hates talk of black people and white people and proudly proclaims that all people are the same. For him, the important quality in a person is whether he or she is nice.
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