Social Justice Plea from A Black Mother to her Black and Latino Brothers and Sisters
My ex-husband used to tell me that when he was just a boy in his old LA neighborhood, the black kids were louder and more aggressive than he, and they would bully him until he ran home crying to his mama. What my husband experienced in his childhood neighborhood painted a negative picture in his Mexican mama’s imagination of Black-Americans. To take an experience and create broad assumptions about a person or a group of people is so common to our human experience, it almost seems it would be a helpful practice. But we all know deep down, that...
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