At the dinner table sits a white family: the father (a police officer), a mother and their two sonsâa teenager and his younger brother. The teenager has an African-American friend, J.B., whom he wants to hang out with, but his father doesnât want him leaving the house to meet up with J.B.âand especially not at night. âI want to keep you from bad situations,â the father explains to his sonâan eerie foretelling, but more important, indicative of the violence that this white man associates with all black boys, even J.B., a black boy he knows personally and considers to be âa good kid.â
Writers
Nate Parker, James Lopez
