There is nothing wrong with promoting mentorship. There is something wrong with a president who told us for years that he was not the president of Black America but all of America, as if black people were not part of America, now putting forth his first racially specific program, and it not being any policy, but rather a spate of philanthropic endeavors. It was insulting, but right in line with his philosophy. As if he had been elected to be mentor in chief. As if mentors are all black boys need to survive. As if what he really meant was mentor as a stand in for father. As if he could save
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