What’s it like for a White woman to raise a Black son? Actress Sandra Bullock recently spoke out about her concerns while raising her son in today’s tumultuous racial climate, saying she wants her son “to be judged for the man he is.” Speaking with Glamour magazine, the 51-year-old mom said her adopted son Louis Bardo Bullock, “forced her to get her sh*t” together.” Bullock, aware of the peril both men and women of color have faced over the years, says more has to be done to keep pushing the message of civil rights heroes before us.
Bullock tells Glamour:
“You see how far we’ve come in civil rights—and where we’ve gotten back to now,” she said. “I want my son to be safe. I want my son to be judged for the man he is. We are at a point now where if we don’t do something, we will have destroyed what so many amazing people have done. You look at women’s rights; it’s turning into a mad, mad world out there. But sometimes it needs to get really loud for people to say, ‘I can’t unsee this.’ If I could ride in a bubble with him for the rest of his life, I would. But I can’t.”
SOURCE: Glamour, Huffington Post
Black women been feeling this way for all of history and it’s deeper for us because she will never truely know his struggle..
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She might never understand the full dynamic of the struggle but she is aware that there is a problem. I wish her the best with her son and pray that she instills in him necessary knowledge and skills to make him a productive black man.
She can NEVER make him a black man. She’s only raising a black boy. Who will face reality someday that he is black. Only a black man can teach and show him how to be a black man in this racist country. Black kids are being profiled just as well as black male adults. She’s NOT the voice for black mother’s. This is new to her but it has been going for centuries for a black parent.
Stop, black women this child support System Trap…Boys are afraid of men not women to raise them..
Putting a child out at 18 years of age who is going to support him or her? This is another trap to keep us down and Families apart…If they can not enslave you now they will use another means to keep you black people apart.. Be smart..