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The Fairytale of the Victimhood
americanthinker.com ^ | 8/27/2014 | Angela Graham-West

Posted on 08/27/2014 8:35:27 AM PDT by rktman

I recently read an article entitled “What Black Parents Tell Their Sons About the Police” and I began to ponder the downward spiral in race relations over the past five years. According to the author Jazmine Hughes:

“Such is the burden of black parenting. Being a black parent, especially of a black boy, comes with the added onus of having to protect your child from a country that is out to get him -- a country that kills someone that looks like him every 28 hours, a country that will likely imprison him by his mid-thirties if he doesn't get his high school diploma, a country that is more than twice as likely to suspend him from school than a white classmate. “

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bs; guilt; misguided
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To: GOPJ

Just the facts, sir. ;)


21 posted on 08/27/2014 8:26:13 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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