Halloween While Black
Saying ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Won’t Fly for Halloween 2020
Given how things are going so far, it’s okay for All Hallows’ Eve to take an L
America is a country divided and let’s face it: Black people often celebrate Halloween in a different way than White people do. Momentum takes a week-long look at #HalloweenWhileBlack.
A paintball incident that leaves a mailman injured and in the hospital. Gutters pulled off a house, resulting in $5,000 in damages. Packs of boys invading a family’s porch and ringing the doorbell repeatedly at 10:30 p.m. Young teens in a city playlot with their guns, where they proceed to shoot raccoons and stomp on animal heads.
All too often I witness some people refer to these incidents as if they are normal. “Boys will be boys,” they say. And if girls are involved, they change it to “kids will be kids!” “Don’t you remember doing this when you were a kid?” they ask. “We all played ding dong ditch!” they say. “We all pulled gutters off houses, stomped on raccoons by the toddler swings, and shot BB gun balls into the baby’s bedrooms! Didn’t you?”
Me: Uh no. No I don’t. No I didn’t. No I never. And, no I can’t.
