“Raising a Black Boy in America” written through Calvin Hennick’s own point of view as a white father to his young black son is a brutally honest article that reveals the dirt of present day. We may have thought that our issues between races as a society had subsided when the Fourteenth Amendment was passed but it is still far from resolved. In his narrative he references the Black Lives Matter movement of 2016 when protests and gatherings had started to rise up again in opposition to presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Now, four years later we are coming to the end of Donald Trump’s first term, unsure if it will be his last with racial prejudice being exposed and cast into the public eye on a daily basis. Hennick believed that,” Maybe there’s only a pendulum swinging back and fort,” referring to the world’s shifting from progress to regression as a whole. He wanted nothing more than for his child to live in a better, kinder world than he himself was raised in and was let down. Racial slurs were hurled at his family while attending a Sox game, food was thrown at Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. This world has made minute progress. Due to this failure as a country Hennick is forced to tell his son that he may not wear dark clothing, or even play hide and seek at night let alone leave his hands in his pockets at stores. Nile, just as Gay was, will be forced to lead a much more careful life than your average white male. They will always be discriminated subconsciously if not consciously by everyone and that is just another obstacle he will learn to overcome. Abe’s troubles with defining himself in a less than accepted trade provide other hardships too but not nearly as tough as those brought about through racial prejudice or misogyny.