MY FATHER'S BLACK PRIDE

Like Marcus Blackkel, I am the grandmother of two African-American boys. I hoped he did not state that his mother was faulty, and he respected a black woman whose father loved him and married his mother. I also hope that he can recognize that his mother's contribution to him is not hereditary.

I was moved by Marcus Bleecker's "About Men" column "My Father's Black Pride" (15th October) and sent it to my son in California. His future children will also face the challenge of having a black mother and a white Jewish father. He also raised two black stepsmen called his father. Like Bleecker's father, he sent them south in the summer with their black uncle and grandfather in the summer. They are growing with bleary car love and respect for his white father and they are proud of their black legacy.

My mother was raped by a 17-year-old policeman in the 1970s. My father, a black business owner, was forced to descend from the bus because he had a felony and he was asked to recite the figures of all his tools. My father is from a generation The pride and self-esteem of this generation are what you soak. They still do not understand. All our phones are recorded for quality insurance and scoring. His phone was pulled out and they picked up the phone and understood "Why are you trying to hang up? We understand it thoroughly, but just in case, please stop them Nike Thank you for calling .com spiel and hang up. "

The most important thing for the police of the day was that they were white people. My father is black. For Arcadia police, the black father is not suitable. He does not belong to that space. My father's Caucasian as well as Asian neighbors stopped while walking near. Because of his brown skin color, the police chose my father. Four years ago, my father developed a life-threatening disease called progressive supranuclear palsy. It is rarely known about it, but the symptom is a mixture of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, except that it is disintegrated and appears in later years. A little treatment. Because of his illness, my father is losing a height of more than a hundred pounds and now is less than my weight My stomach and buttocks still support the weight of the baby. My father's doctor gave a limited time to look forward to living in him - to be accurately four years