re: #20 Patricia Kayden

Can we praise all the moms — Black and White — for being courageous? And yes, I understand that Black women have been in the forefront of civil rights struggles for decades. It’s not an either/or situation.

We aren’t praising all the moms though.

I’m a huge fan of the Wall of Moms in Portland. I’m glad for the progress, but the phenomenon itself and the disproportionate response to it also demonstrates how deep the deficit in our collective cognition runs.