This may not seem related to many, but I tend to not understand the world in simple terms. My 18 year old son who is a senior in high school is off on a 4 day exertion to Boston, MA for a Parkour Jam. It is 12 hour drive from Durham, NC. He is taking his car and traveling with two college students from Duke, both African-American kids from the Northeast. Parents have to let go, but I confess to some anxiety about this first, long trip when the car can break down or the kids get lost, etc. I am also aware of some measure of increased anxiety that the kids might face increased risk of "targeting" if they drive too fast or have a breakdown, or otherwise need help or call attention to themselves, simply because two of them are African-American. Now mind you, I live in the South. I don't happen to think there is any more racism in the South than there is in the North, but I do think racism in the North or in urban areas is more unconscious, and therefore possibly more dangerous and unpredictable.