Feb 02, 2017
Caption: Tamir Mustafa, Joan Rodriguez, and their children. Mustafa said, "What makes America great is everybody in it." Photo: Melissa Cox
My neighbors Anthony and Fenton, brothers aged 7 and 8, and I had a sidewalk conversation about Trump’s victory one evening. The boys were nervous because they had heard that Trump hated Black people; they wanted to know whether this was true. I told them that all evidence indicated it was. They deliberated for a few minutes, and then Anthony said, “Well, our dad is white, and our mom and grandma are Black. So he would hate our family.”