A talk moms must have, about race

My boy has been known to wear a hoodie. Sneakers, too. His jeans are a bit baggy because he has lost some weight since football season. He likes Skittles.

Yet in the many hours I’ve spent praying over this child in his 17 years, not for one second have I had to worry that someone would find these things suspicious.

Not one of the many cautionary words I’ve spoken to my blue-eyed boy has had to be a warning that someday a stranger might follow him home from a store because he is using his hoodie to shield his candy from the rain and shoot him to death.

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