Trayvon, and Those Beautiful Boys
I've been thinking a lot about Trayvon. But it really didn't hit home until a friend posted on Facebook that she didn't want to have to worry about her two black boys as they grow up. I know those boys. The older was a friend of my son's when they were younger. The younger I know only as a baby, and what a beautiful one. To think of these precious children at risk just because they're boys, and black, stopped my heart for a minute. But that's what all this is really about. The stigma and dread black boys and men live with every day of their lives. As President Obama said yesterday, he, too, has been followed in department stores and heard locks click on cars when he was walking by. How can you live this way? Yet we expect members of the black race to endure this, no, expect this, when they go out into the world. President Obama also gave voice to the fact that very often, it's black men who are committing the crimes. But how e...