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Stacey Patton, a senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, brings to light the harsh injustices faced by children in Black America in the Washington Post article “In America, Black Children Don’t Get to be Children.” She illustrates that even today, black children are viewed as different from white children, and cannot even claim innocence in the same way white children do. She states that the “white life cycle features innocence, growth, civility, responsibility and becoming an adult” and adds on, “blackness is characterized as the inversion of that.” Patton theorizes that the innocence black children cannot claim casts them as adults, and inversely, black adults in a “limbo of childhood,” with associations such as irresponsibility, criminal acts and behaviour, and ultimately, inferiority.