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Posted on 08/28/2025 1:48:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops has caused some Black parents to return to the days of “the talk” about policing that they had hoped was no longer needed to keep their children safe.
Days after President Trump ordered a surge of federal law enforcement agents in Washington, D.C., Charlene Golphin told her 17-year-old son that his curfew was being cut short by two hours.
Ms. Golphin feared that as a Black boy, her son would be caught in the dragnet set up by officers tasked by the president with cracking down on the “roving mobs of wild youth” he accused of terrorizing the city.
Her son, Atrayu Lee, argued that his mother was overreacting. He didn’t engage in the activities that could incite a negative interaction with the police, he said. He spent his free time working with local organizations and had stopped wearing hoodies or black track suits.
Ms. Golphin didn’t want to hear it. “I said what I said,” she affirmed.
The highly visible new patrols of federal agents and National Guard troops and President Trump’s declaration that young people are a threat to public safety has put Black parents on edge, prompting many of them to enforce stricter rules about going out and wade back into tough conversations about racial profiling and policing.
For decades, Black parents have given what they describe as “the talk,” a set of guidelines for how their children, particularly boys, should interact with the police and try to avoid attention from law enforcement altogether.
These conversations became heightened after the deaths of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., prompting national attention to the problem of young Black men dying at the hands of the police. After the nationwide protests that followed the death of George...
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Still beating those dead... horses.
Leftists gotta keep black folks on the ideological plantation.
since the NG was deployed in Washington DC, i am betting that less black kids have been arrested or killed by police... just saying
Looks like mommy-dearest is trying to brainwash her son with racial bigotry ... and he’s having none of it.
“heightened after the deaths of Trayvon Martin in Florida...the problem of young Black men dying at the hands of the police”
Incongruity in the argument.
as a white kid going to baltimore city public schools in the late 70s, i was given the talk to, by my father who told me to not disrespect them or they would flip out and attack in numbers. but he said, always stand up to them and you’ll earn their respect or fear. which i did. and did. junior high was ruff, fight every other week, but in high school i had the rep of being crazy.
Classic case of agenda “journalism.” In other words, “I hate Trump and he cannot do anything right.”
Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents CRIMINALS, NYT, AND THE LEFT on Edge
His curfew was cut short by 2 hours? What instead of 1:00 a.m. he’ll have to be home early? Maybe he can use those 2 hours to do his homework
Giving their son an earlier curfew is a bad thing?
To bad that no one gave them the "talk" they might still be alive.
I read nothing in this article that's a bad thing. Only good can come from parents taking control of their kids.
“There is a time to Break Bread,
And there is a time for Breakin’ Heads!”
Oh, so Trump’s policing is like killing Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and George Floyd.
The NYT is the worst paper ever published.
“and wade back into tough conversations about racial profiling and policing.”
Who thinks that black people at home hesitate to go on and on about racism?
Just wondering, the parents were happier when kids were getting shot every night?
No it doesn’t. NYSlimes BS.
“The talk” these black parents need to be having with their juvenile delinquent kids is not to commit crime, obey law enforcement officers, go to church regularly, stay in school, and plan to get a job so they don’t become a welfare parasite.
“Parents”? They mean unwed mothers worries about losing their baby thugs and the benes that come with it.
They probably wouldn’t be scared if black males were the most frequent targets of crime.
Wait....
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