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[quote=Anonymous]I believe these fears are real for the people like OP posting, but my advice is: if you have any, ask your friends of color how they raise their sons. I never expected the world to hand anything to my kids on a silver platter, or for them to be assumed to be the best for a job, or even to be assumed competent without proving it or treated fairly. There's a long line in other cultures of raising kids to work twice as hard, grind for every inch, and expect setbacks. I feel like these white moms are very overwhelmed by the idea of this mindset being necessary when it comes to their boys (but not girls, that's just the natural order of things or something her husband will sort out). You can either freak out at the idea that your sons are being born into a different social order than their fathers were born into, or you can try to actually learn from people who have achieved even though the world was not ever set up for them to coast.[/quote]
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