Finally, My Son Is Starting to Be Aware of His Blackness

You can raise your kids, but only to a point.

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Like me, my son grew up in a white space. Like me, his exposure to a diverse environment was virtually non-existent. Unlike me, he grew up in a zeitgeist of cataclysmic social change. Should I feel better about this? Perhaps, but as a young Black male in America, he continues to deal with the…