“Attitudes necessary for survival were vigorously pounded into the wooly heads of black boys a
“Attitudes necessary for survival were vigorously pounded into the wooly heads of black boys and girls by their loving mothers. The boys were reared to be Negroes, not men. A negro might survive a while, but a black “man” didn’t live very long…. a black boy aiming to reach “manhood” rather than “Negro-hood” rarely lived that long” - Jamil Al-Amin -- source link
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