Comments on: Son Selected for African-American Leadership Group in Middle School

By: Tim Elhajj

Tim Elhajj — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:26:31 +0000

Thanks, Beth! I always had a hard time wrapping my head around hunky: it’s not on any of the maps and only my mother’s side of the family and people in Steelton seem to know what it means.

I think Aaron is handsome, too. Sometimes I have to remind myself he’s still just a baby, he looks so big and grown up to me.

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:24:48 +0000

All I know is, my teenaged granddaughters would say your son is definitely hunky. In our vernacular, that means extremely good-looking, as in “He’s a hunk.” (see stud-muffin for cross-reference)

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By: Tim Elhajj

Tim Elhajj — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:16:07 +0000

Okay, so here is the update:

My wife called the school and discussed it with my son, who did not want to go (Do I have to go the black leadership thing?). Also, it wasn’t a group, but an event–black leaders from the community were coming to meet some of the boys.

The school said that everyone listed as multi-ethnic got the letter. My son didn’t know what multi-ethnic meant and had assumed:

1) His skin wasn’t white enough to make him white.
2) He was a bad student, so they were sending him to black leadership day.

I am amazed sometimes what goes through my kid’s mind.