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[quote=Anonymous]PP here again. I just want to add that as your child gets older, interactions with blacks who are disparaging because of academic pursuits and how he speaks will become less and less. This is partially because he will be in schools, circles, activities and eventually college and workplaces where people with that mindset have not matriculated. My husband was the smart black kid in an inner city school where too many in his cohort were imprisoned or killed by senior year. The "bad" black kids he went to elementary school with protected him later in life because he treated people well and even they knew that he would make it out. On the other hand, the divide between blacks and whites gets larger as children grow into adulthood. Deliberate racism and ignorance are more frequent and have larger impacts. Biases against him and his skin color become more apparent. You can only equip your child, not protect him.[/quote]
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