List of things you can’t do while black

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Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I'm just feeling really sad. I'm trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to raise a black child, and especially a black male, in this fukced up country.

I cannot imagine. The conversations I have to have with my blond daughter are so different than my friends who have sweet little boys who are about to become “scary black teenagers”

Even those sweet little boys are seen as older than they are. They are punished more severely in school, they are deprived of innocence and being seen as merely children .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

You are a POS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I'm just feeling really sad. I'm trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to raise a black child, and especially a black male, in this fukced up country.

I’m black and have a young elementary-aged daughter. I felt a little relieved when I learned we were having a girl, although I feel guilty saying it—black girls certainly have their challenges, but it doesn’t seem as dangerous out there for girls as it does for black sons.

However, even that’s not much relief, since I have a black husband and brothers.

[Anonymous]

Play with your white younger cousins at the playground without strangers telling you to “leave those little boys alone”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I'm just feeling really sad. I'm trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to raise a black child, and especially a black male, in this fukced up country.

I’m black and have a young elementary-aged daughter. I felt a little relieved when I learned we were having a girl, although I feel guilty saying it—black girls certainly have their challenges, but it doesn’t seem as dangerous out there for girls as it does for black sons.

However, even that’s not much relief, since I have a black husband and brothers.

Sandra Bland
Signed,
Black mother of a black daughter

[Anonymous]

Where a hoodie...

[Anonymous]

Nap while writing a paper at Yale

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BBQ at a public park

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Fall asleep in a university common room.

[Anonymous]

Swim in your own apartment complex's swimming pool without carrying ID.

[Anonymous]

Ride in your car while carrying a legal, licensed gun.

[Anonymous]

Ask a neighbor for directions when you’re lost.

[Anonymous]

Go for a jog.

[Anonymous]

Walk with my white DW (a white man, who appeared to be homeless and clearly concerned for her well being, asked her if she was ok).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I'm just feeling really sad. I'm trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to raise a black child, and especially a black male, in this fukced up country.

I’m black and have a young elementary-aged daughter. I felt a little relieved when I learned we were having a girl, although I feel guilty saying it—black girls certainly have their challenges, but it doesn’t seem as dangerous out there for girls as it does for black sons.

However, even that’s not much relief, since I have a black husband and brothers.

Sandra Bland
Signed,
Black mother of a black daughter

PP here. You're right. There was also 19yo Renisha McBride in Dearborn, Michigan, who was shot and killed when knocking on someone's door after she got in a car accident. And others. I'm aware, but I still think the risk is greater for boys. But not zero risk for either boys or girls. We're all trying to do what we can to make sure our kids can make their way safely in the world.