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This is true, however teaching to our kids that nation state actors can try to subvert and combat any initiatives that they deem a threat and to get creative when trying to build for the future to mitigate against this threat is important.

It's also hard because a lot of positive opportunity for black kids growing up (at least in my experience Cincinnati, Ohio mid/late 90's early 2000s) has mainly come in through athletic sport initiatives, which was interesting to me as a kid to some degree, I was more interested in things not pertaining to athletic sports. Hell, I can barely relate to college educated black people who/want to work for companies like FB/GOOG/etc…