Chad Goller-Sojourner presents his story of what happens when a black boy, raised by white parents, "ages out" of honorary white and suburban privilege and into a world where folklore, statistics, and conjecture deem him dangerous until proven otherwise.
"While I did not know it at the time, growing up one of the benefits of my honorary white and suburban privilege was the ability to gather, congregate and move aimlessly through public spaces without attention or purpose… Perhaps that’s why for years after leaving home I carried an old family picture, tucked directly behind my driver’s license, where the latter went the former followed, sometimes whispering, and sometimes shouting “I am not the Black Man you think I am. Now please let me pass without delay or further hindrance.”His solo performance of "Riding in Cars" debuts in April 2013. Chad's first solo performance was "Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy," and is now in its fifth season.
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