https://www.mothersinblackandwhite.com/home daily 1.0 2021-09-22 https://www.mothersinblackandwhite.com/rsvp daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://www.mothersinblackandwhite.com/mothers daily 0.75 2021-10-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5a903ff2e6d393075b1/1631840135000/Takisha-Fuller-3.jpg Mothers “I’m just thinking back to when I was so sure it was a girl. I had all these ideas of what her life would be and everything. And when I found out that it was a boy, I was a little nervous. I have to raise a boy, a black boy, in this type of society. And then seeing everything on the news is really traumatic-to keep seeing that over and over towards boys that look just like him.” -Takisha Fuller https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e59d3a4edf44b6554ff1/1631840228573/Franciesca-Dixson-Russel1.jpg Mothers “With everything going on, I hope that he stays true to himself and doesn’t let peer pressure get a hold of him. I just hope he stays true to himself and knows his worth and value.” -Franciesca Dixson-Russel https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5b8b18a006b515e9e77/1631840257258/Galleryprints-MIBW-195022.jpg Mothers “I’ve changed so much that I can’t explain. I want to just dive in and I wish I wasn’t me almost. I wish I had experienced more and known so much more. I wish I would have been open in a way that I just wasn’t. I don’t know if that’s the fault of my wonderful parents that I loved. They never really seemed to steer me wrong. There was this podcast I listened to about the march in Selma. I asked my family, “What were you guys doing as kids during that?” There was no answer. They didn’t really know. Everybody knew but they didn’t really know. My hope is that people will see what I am starting to see.” -Alyssa Lombardo https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6156659b2b8ac513fb491f9f/1633052059049/Courtney-Lin-3.jpg Mothers https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e59d5afa5966eb4d44bd/1631840367407/Jontisha-Graves-3.jpg Mothers “My fear is that I’m not doing enough to prepare them. How am I going to ensure that they know? That’s a big weight as a mom. It’s bigger because they are black and they are innocent and sweet.” -Jontisha Graves https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5953136c64511add9eb/1631840393358/Galleryprints-MIBW-114606.jpg Mothers “A dream is that he can be seen as a human being. He is a black boy that will turn into a black man, and you know, I don’t want people to be fearful of him. He’s a human. He’s a person. We’re the same but different and we are not to be feared just because of the color of our skin. As we see in so many of these cases, people can have their hands up, but they’re like “I was afraid. It looked like he had something.” Even when the hands are up and you’re completely complying, you still fear me. I don’t ever want him to be seen as a threat.” -Jamila Campbell https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5a90b42d425dc345bb9/1631840420411/Galleryprints-MIBW-204347.jpg Mothers “The hope for my son is that he grows up in a world that has peace and love. I hate to sound cliche but peace and love- at least from his perspective. I hope he’s able to filter out the negativity and embrace the positivity and take control about how he feels about things. No matter what obstacles are against him, may he find a way to always think of things in a brighter light. I think that's my main hope for him.” -Antia Veal https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5a6b2ad433ea0da589c/1631840476961/Te%27Sheba-Oliver-1.jpg Mothers “And the hope is that what the Creator has placed in us to pour into Kingston, will be far more rooted and give him the holding and foundation and security to say, “Regardless of what this person has just said, I know who I am. I left out of that meeting and you know what, I may be hard pressed, but not cast down.” May our children know they are rooted in the One who made them and that they are fully loved, that they are fully known, and that they are fully seen and no one can take that away.” -Te’Sheba Oliver https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5abdcc56158d0ecbfdb/1631840507868/Asha-Miller-2.jpg Mothers “I’m not kidding. It’s like blood on the door. It’s like a white flag. It’s saying this is a safe space. Some people have the Black Lives Matter signs, some people have the fists in the air. Any of those, when we see it, we know this is a place for us. If I am taking a walk by myself, I will look and mark exactly which houses those are and if I feel threatened, I at least know there’s this house I can go to, can knock on their door and feel safe. There are things my white friends don’t understand. If I’m ever going to let my son walk by himself, that’s what I would tell him. That he knows where to run to and where to go.” -Asha Miller https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5af3a4edf44b6555074/1631840525645/Tiffany-Green-2.jpg Mothers He’s a big kid that looks like a man. He looks older than fourteen from a distance. When you meet him, I think he’s very disarming with people. He’s a kid that speaks directly. He’s not a mumbler, he looks you right in the eye and says, “How are you doing, sir? Things like that. When people say, “Wow, you really work with him at home,” I say, “No, this is how he is.” When he was really young, my father used to call him “the mayor” because it seemed like he went places and people remembered him when he spoke. He was like a miniature adult when he was younger and I don’t want him to lose any of that. I just want those things that are natural gifts in him to be used in some kind of way. I don’t want his light to be diminished.” -Tiffany Green https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5fd69778e7d56528a12/1631840818762/Ebonie-Martin-12.jpg Mothers “Deonte was a son, a brother, a friend, a cousin. He was the kid that you would want around. If you’re sad, he makes you laugh. If you needed anything he was there. He wasn’t a shy kid. He was a fun person to be around. He played every sport but his main thing was basketball. He said he was gonna be the next Mark Cuban. He was gonna own his own basketball team after he made the MVP. He had dreams of going to the NBA. One day he broke the top part of his mouth playing basketball, just goofing off. He had no top teeth in his mouth and he didn’t care. I got him a bridge and he broke the bridge. Before prom he was scheduled to have his implants done so he could go to prom and graduation with teeth. His death date was March 2, 2015. So he was on his way to eighteen. That’s all he talked about. “I can’t wait till I turn eighteen. I’m going to college and then I’ll be grown and can do what I want.” He was the life.” -Ebonie Martin https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5fd297e080c4128aba4/1631840636312/Kimberly-Allison-1.jpg Mothers “When the George Floyd thing happened they were both out of town. When the looting happened, they were out of town. They came back in the midst of it. I’m like, “Oh my goodness, y’all have to be home at this time. I know y’all gonna do what you have to do but I don’t want you in the midst of it.” But they made it easy. They would crack a joke when I wanted to cry- they would make me laugh. They were, I wouldn’t say a crutch, but someone to lean on.” -Kimberly Allison https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5fd0f5a68312d8aa462/1631840681898/Margaret-Mitchell-Green-3.jpg Mothers “The policeman that sat on George Floyd is sitting on someone who has hogtied them. He’s sitting on his prized pig, his prized possession. It is very animalistic. That was the collective, there was a collective consciousness. You have to juxtapose that against Dillan Roof, who walked into Mother Emmanuel in South Carolina during a Bible study and murdered nine people in cold blood and the police took him out to Burger King for lunch before taking him to jail. The naming and framing of the collective and then you need to begin to dismantle that and understand how that framing starts at such a young age. Black boys are a threat. They are particularly a threat to white women and white girls. They must be dealt with at all costs. They must be contained. They must be held down, held back, held over or held under in order to manage them and keep them in their place.” -Margaret Mitchell Green https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5fdb160cc13708ee083/1631840714144/Charlene-Nichols-3.jpg Mothers “Justin is my one and only child. I decided early on that I only wanted one child. I remember when he was first born, I was in labor for eighteen hours and I couldn’t deliver naturally so I had to have a C-section. I delivered him and of course, I did the breastfeeding and all that. The bond developed at that point. I knew from that moment on that Justin was always going to be the most important thing to me. I can’t even imagine loving someone more than I love him. That’s the way it’s been all this time.” -Charlene Nichols https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e5fb0245e4835356b6cac6/613ff0f98afe0c6ab3ea5386/6143e5fdc550d11661bb1d22/1631840743007/Brenda-Watkins-1.jpg Mothers “I think we all have levels of blindness to ourselves, who we really are, and who others are. So a favorite prayer of mine is, “Open my eyes Lord, that I may see. Open my ears that I may hear. Open my heart that I might receive.” I think you have to genuinely pray that prayer. I think we have to be honest. Do we genuinely want to see? Because if we want to see, then seeing requires something of us. 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