Really POTUS?

American Black culture happens to be one of the only cultural pockets in American life where
childhood is real and lively.
This has been true since the fifties when black dads came back from WWII and began to earn a living
for their growing families.
Those young people who came of age in the sixties were bound and determined to explain their
absolute disbelief in white superiority.
The rest is history.
Maybe today's youngsters take a bit too much for granted; but they can't exactly put down the X-box.
Their childhoods create industries in this country which transfer to wider world. Most other
childhoods in America are established in the play of some sort of war games if they exist at all.
So many childhoods in America are predicated upon learning the very political value of living in an all white neighborhood, going to an all white school, and learning to shoot many guns.
I am not sure a majority of young black children think of those things as very wonderful.  I think they may be able to spend more time on homework; but we have to be careful there. Homework doesn't
exactly spawn all the industries we need for black youngsters.
We need music industries, writers, history professors, directors, poets, social innovators, and religious leaders. We aren't going to get the brands of those things we need from children who don't
play.
Remember Peter Jennings? I always do. He made everyone aware that if he had been black when he
began in journalism, no one he knew would have given him even a ghost of a chance!
We will never be able to say that about talented black people who wanted help from, say,
Barry Gordy.