No. It is not his “Whiteness” that keeps Junior from being shot. Cops and crooks have both proven more than willing to shoot or brutalize white folks.
It is the fact that Daddy moved them out of the urban cesspit into the suburbs where the crime is lower and cops less insanely scared of the herd.
And Mommy checks Junior’s homework and grades, makes sure he’s not associating with criminal scum and that he’s home before midnight, or, better yet, by 10PM.
Because Mr. and Mrs. White Suburbanite and their kids avoid the wrong places and the wrong people, Junior is far less likely to get shot.
HOME by midnight? or 10 PM?
Bedtime in my family upbringing was 9:30 PM until we were seniors in high school, then bedtime was 10 PM.
IF we were out late, it was at a football game or a band event, on a school bus.