A 2 year old baby gets called a thug and white people want to argue how that’s not racial at all. Yeah…okay… Until that boy is laying dead on pool of blood for hours and the justification for his slating is that he was a thug. Because Trayvon was a thug. Tamir was a thug. Michael was a thug.
It starts with us not even being seen as children or as human. He’s 2 and he’s already been labeled as a damn thug. And I’m trying my hardest not to cry over this article because I am about to birth a baby boy and every day I see on the news what happens to little Black boys who get labeled as a thug. What if somebody thinks my son is a thug one day? That’s the difference. White mothers don’t have to think about their child’s life being taken just because of their skin color and the stereotypes against them. That’s why it’s funny when white people get offended at the Starbucks stereotype. Nobody ever felt threatened because you went to starbucks. But what happens when somebody feels threatened because my son is a Black man, a fact he cannot control, and assume he’s a thug because that is the stereotype?
It’s always about race, NOT because WE make it about race, but because white people remind us of race and racial stereotypes every damn day. Thugs are criminals and this little 2 year old boy has already been labeled one. Think about THAT.
Smh
Despicable
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