9 month old Black Baby - reads out loud!

[pnwmom]

19. I accept ALL your statistics about the unfair discipline of black children, especially boys.

It's not news to me, it's not debatable, and it's a terrible problem. Full stop.

But I don't think RACISTS will be moved by a video showing that an African American baby could correctly repeat words on flash cards. If anything, RACISTS might be even more resentful of a black child they considered to be gifted. How would that help in a school discipline situation, if they were determined to go after the black child? Being smart doesn't make you well behaved in school.

I think the idea that if black people can just do all the right things, white people will stop mistreating them, is wrong. Wouldn't you agree with that?

If anything the Obama administration taught me the opposite of that -- that black people will be targeted by racists no matter how much they achieve. The more Obama excelled, as a man and as a President, the more some white people attacked him. That does NOT mean Obama shouldn't be all that he is, and can be. But it won't insulate him from attacks by racists.

One of my friends is a black physician, and I have heard his stories of being stopped by the police for driving while black. None of the police would have cared about a video purporting to show he could read as a baby (though if anyone could have, it would have been he.)