By and To be a mother is to live in a state of heightened emotions: more joy each time you see your child smile, more excitement than you ever thought you could feel watching someone tie their shoes.
There’s also more fear. Fear that the part of you that goes off into the world every day could meet harm. In the United States, where police brutality is for Black men and boys and racism has been , that fear isn’t a hypothetical for mothers of Black children.
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