Mothers as 'trauma surgeons:' the anguish of raising black boys in America

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'I let them know that the world does not love them.'

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES - Raising black boys in America involves"constant mental anguish," Danielle Pattillo, a special education teacher in New York City and mother to two sons, ages 14 and 22, said.

Police-involved fatalities in the United States average nearly three deaths per day, a 2018 study in the American Journal of Public Health showed, and black men are more than twice as likely to be killed during them than white men. Speak slowly, keep your school I.D. on you, but don't put your hand in your pocket to reach for it without asking. Don't give the officer anything that could be considered sass.The Talk is so ubiquitous that the National Black Police Association holds a dramatized version with police officers, judges and prosecutors in high schools, and distributes a written guide entitled"What to Do When Stopped by the Police.

Story continues"He can't be the wild kid. He wants to be the class clown. You cannot be the class clown," she said."I fear the day when he turns 10, and that admiration for this cute little curly-haired boy turns into fear," she said.

 

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