[Migraine]

high achieving black men about how they were stopped by the police, where they were taught how to place their hands on the steering wheel or to cross the street when walking on a street with a white woman

"When-in-Rome" cultural caveats are wherever you go. We've recently learned not to wear the colors red or blue too prominently, and we've learned the meanings of certain ball caps, as gangstas perceive the wearers to be expressing enemy loyalties, and you might get beaten up or shot. Wow. I feel so put-upon.

Not to even mention (but I will anyway) the fact that WE can't even go into THEIR part of town, period.

So people need to get chips off shoulders and work on their own reputations.

[Engedi]

Exactly, the author asks where are the celebrities. I ask where are the Black Male mentors, the Fathers of all these children murdering each other, joining gangs, etc. When are Black Males going to start being accountable for the break-down of the family unit of their own race?