![]() "Culture and mythology are political," she writes. Although her husband, Femi, was educated in the United States, he had been irrevocably shaped by his own patriarchal culture. She writes that Michael was born in Nigeria within the large Yoruba family Golden had married into. Not surprisingly, she finds no easy answers. "Saving Our Sons" is Golden's very personal and moving search for that truth. Somewhere between the fact that black males are the prime victims of crime and violence, and the false media-generated image that they are responsible as well for nearly all the crime in America, lies the truth." ![]() Homicide is the leading cause of death for young black males, and that statistic, Golden writes, "like so much else in black life, is surrealistic, chilling, and outrageous. Young black males are neither valued nor listened to, Golden says in "Saving Our Sons," the book she felt called to write about the perils of raising her own son - and by extension all black sons. And a black kid does not have time to waste." Because Michael was so immature, we were worried that he might just drift into trouble or waste his high school years. ![]() 'My son wasn't a bad kid, he was just kind of a knucklehead," Marita Golden said during a recent visit to San Francisco. ![]() ![]() Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World ![]()
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