IN THE NEWS | What ‘Adultification’ Theory Gets Wrong About Violence Against Black Youth
NEWSONE
OPINION
Black Children Are Not Being Killed Because They Are ‘Adultified;’
They’re Murdered Because They’re Black
Black children are and have always been a threat to the continuity of white supremacy and treated as enemy combatants in the same brutal manner as their elders. Whether they are considered children or adults is irrelevant.