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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Perception

An excerpt from the Huffington Post -

The Disturbingly Different Responses To The Disney And Cincinnati Zoo Tragedies
by Ranier Maningding

This week, at the Disney World Resort in Florida, a 2-year-old white boy was killed by an alligator. Last month, a 3-year-old Black child fell into a Gorilla exhibit.

Two similar tragedies, two DISTURBINGLY different responses from the public.

But this isn’t about gorillas and alligators. Nor is it about news media describing Matt Graves, the father of the white child, as an employee of a “tech company and a board member of the Chamber of Commerce” while depicting Deonne Dickerson, the father of the Black child, as an absent father with a lengthy criminal record.

Nah.

This is about our country’s OBSESSION with invalidating, patronizing and racializing Black parents. ALL BLACK PARENTS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ranier-maningding/ranier_b_10511692.html

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