People of all races see black children as less innocent, more adultlike and more responsible for their actions than their white peers. In turn, normal childhood behavior, like disobedience, tantrums and back talk, is seen as a criminal threat when black kids do it.
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Read more“He’s like a child,” she said. “He’s very loving, and when we talk he says he wants to hug me and and protect me. And laugh, and be together. He has no evil in his heart.”
Read moreThe phrase on its own is contradictory—a woman is an adult, while an underage person is a minor—but it’s especially so in context.
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