Actor Jay Ellis takes us back to his childhood – moving all around the country, going on adventures with his imaginary friend, and dreaming of being an FBI agent/karate master/football champion one day. He tells the story of one of his first interactions with the police, when, after toilet-papering a classmate’s house with best friend Joe, the pair are detained and berated by cops for more than 30 minutes, “as if we had just robbed a store.” Jay says the experience forever changed his relationship with law enforcement. “I didn't get to have those teenage years in the same way that some of my non-Black peers and friends got to have. I was looked at as a man and thought to be dangerous, even though I was a boy.” 

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Actor Jay Ellis takes us back to his childhood &ndash; moving all around the country, going on adventures with his imaginary friend, and dreaming of being an FBI agent/karate master/football champion one day. He tells the story of one of his first interactions with the police, when, after toilet-papering a classmate&rsquo;s house with best friend Joe, the pair are detained and berated by cops for more than 30 minutes, &ldquo;as if we had just robbed a store.&rdquo; Jay says the experience forever changed his relationship with law enforcement. &ldquo;I didn't get to have those teenage years in the same way that some of my non-Black peers and friends got to have. I was looked at as a man and thought to be dangerous, even though I was a boy.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Support the show by checking out our sponsors!
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NEJFhcReE4ejw2Kw7ba8DVJ1xQLogPwA/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NEJFhcReE4ejw2Kw7ba8DVJ1xQLogPwA/vie</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Interested in learning more about Jay? Check out the links below:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Listen to Jay&rsquo;s Lemonada Media podcast The Untold Story: Policing: <a href="http://smarturl.it/untoldstory">http://smarturl.it/untoldstory</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li aria-level="1">Watch Jay as Lawrence on HBO&rsquo;s Insecure: <a href="https://www.hbo.com/insecure">https://www.hbo.com/insecure</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li aria-level="1">Catch Jay in the long-awaited Top Gun sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, out this summer: <a href="https://www.topgunmovie.com/">https://www.topgunmovie.com/</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to <a href="https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/good-kids/">https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/good-kids/</a> shortly after the air date.
Stay up to date with Good Kids and everything from Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com.
If you want to submit a show idea, email us at <a href="mailto:goodkids@lemonadamedia.com">goodkids@lemonadamedia.com</a>.&nbsp;
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Good Kids

We get better instructions for putting together furniture than we do for raising actual human beings. And that doesn’t even account for how to do it amid a global pandemic and civil/political unrest. That’s why Season 2 of Good Kids features a compelling mix of perspectives on child-rearing — from parents and experts, authors and actors, to "good" kids themselves — imparting wisdom for a brief, but potent, 10(ish) minutes each week. Good Kids isn’t just another parenting podcast. It’s an all-hands-on-deck discussion about what we can do to help children create a better world. Collectively.

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