When My Cute Black Kid Becomes What You Fear Most

Bellamy Shoffner
The Establishment
Published in
6 min readJan 6, 2016

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When he gets older, remember that my sweet black son is a human being with the right to live.

RRarely a day goes by when my sons, ages 4 and 18 months, don’t get complimented on how good-looking they are. My oldest, who has a light skin tone and dirty blonde hair, was once called beautiful by a young, white filmmaker…

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Bellamy Shoffner
The Establishment

Held up by the good graces of chai tea and phenomenal friends. Editor at Hold the Line.