The coronavirus pandemic was new territory for all of us. Racism, for Black parents, is not.
It’s an ongoing public health crisis in the U.S. There’s no coordinated national response to mitigate the impacts of this country’s racist history. Little to nothing is done to reduce the excessive force and police militarization Black people are subjected to, so we’ll continue to exert our energy screaming that Black lives matter and doing the work to make it known.
Parenting doesn’t stop because the world has shut down. In fact, mothers everywhere are more often than not carrying the burden of figuring out how to work while caring for their children. Racism and the harm it causes will never stop either. We are grieving and suffering collective trauma as we personally experience death and read about the people all around us dying from COVID-19, and with a disproportionately high rate of Black people dying from the virus at that.
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