https://twitter.com/LaJethroJenkins/status/498284661639245824
The United States of America is the perfect place to live for all races. After all the U.S. is extremely biracial, complete meritocracy, and everyone is treated the same. People are very straight forward with no hidden agendas and the government is totally transparent. *Dumps bucket of water over the author's sleeping face* OK PEOPLE THIS IS NOT THE U.S. African American males lives in.
The America black males live in is far from the biracial Utopia mainstream media tried to paint after President Obama was elected in Nov. 2008. Black males wake up everyday paranoid by things that other races would deem ludicrous. No other race of males has to be told at a very innocent age what to do in order to stay alive. If a black man does not live a certain way or avoid doing certain innocent things like buying a bb gun, wearing a hoodie, or god forbid reach for their ID to show cops he may be gunned down in cold blood. As black men have seen those MENACING tasks can *coughs coughs* lead to an untimely death.
Media portrayal of black males is another cause of their paranoia. The Three-Fifths Compromise was repealed over 100yrs ago, yet media members tend to look as young black males as super human characters. Most tragedies that happen to blacks the media asks did the black man provoke the situation instead of putting the spotlight on the killer http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-ferguson-teen-struggled-over-gun-before-being-shot-to/article_f9d627dc-e3c8-5bde-b2ab-7f0a3d36a083.html. Bill Belichick the head coach of the New England Patriots wears a hoodie and he is considered a genius and profits from it http://nesn.com/2012/10/bill-belichicks-latest-cutoff-hoodie-available-from-patriots-pro-shop-for-75/. On the other a hoodie led to young Trayvon Martin's *side eye* deserved death and this media portrayal http://patdollard.com/2012/03/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealing-gangbanger/.
After all of that has been digested into a black man's psyche he eventually has to pass down his paranoia to his innocent son https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/490682084856307712. He will have to stir up all kinds of old emotions and memories recounting injustices of innocent black males. How will he be able to make an innocent boy understand that police are more like to oppress him rather than protect him? How 18 yr old Mike Brown was unarmed and gunned down? How Trayvon Martin was stalked and gunned down for wearing a hoodie on a cool damp night? How Oscar Grant broke up a fight and police killed him? How John Crawford was killed over a bb gun in Walmart?
Those are the questions the parent will have to answer even though he has no clue why blacks are hunted like deer and treated as being inferior to dogs. When will the generational paranoia end?
