A man called Freedom

Coming in Thursday's Trentonian, L.A. Parker brings you the story of a young city man named "Freedom," a group called Fathers and Men United for a Better Trenton and local people choosing a more positive approach toward themselves and the community.
Here's a taste:
If persons of color become successful like many of the aforementioned, many of us ridicule them by describing them as “sellouts” or inquire “Are they black enough?”The inference is that if blacks succeed in this current system, if we speak well, learn well and rise to the levels of teachers, doctors and corporate executives, that we somehow have abandoned our blackness, culture and other rights.
Such beliefs suggest that we have exchanged our metallic ropes for a worse prison, a mental incarceration that, unless changed, will lead to the destruction of ourselves by ourselves.

A man called Freedom

Coming in Thursday's Trentonian, L.A. Parker brings you the story of a young city man named "Freedom," a group called Fathers and Men United for a Better Trenton and local people choosing a more positive approach toward themselves and the community.
Here's a taste:
If persons of color become successful like many of the aforementioned, many of us ridicule them by describing them as “sellouts” or inquire “Are they black enough?”The inference is that if blacks succeed in this current system, if we speak well, learn well and rise to the levels of teachers, doctors and corporate executives, that we somehow have abandoned our blackness, culture and other rights.
Such beliefs suggest that we have exchanged our metallic ropes for a worse prison, a mental incarceration that, unless changed, will lead to the destruction of ourselves by ourselves.