Mindful Monday

“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

The Way America Works

I just became inordinately emotional trying to explain menacing and threatening to my son.




I know some day it won't matter how sweet he is, he'll appear that way to someone.





"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."
Toni Morrison

The Police

"Where those police mama?"
"Yes."
"Do police put people in jail?"
"Yes."
"Bad people?"
"Well...sometimes they've done something bad but sometimes the police make a mistake and they put a good guy in jail. And that's a terrible thing."
"Why?"
"Because jail is terrible. You don't get to see your family or friends. You don't get to do anything you want to do."
"Oh."

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The worst part of parenting is having to slowly chip away at how fantastic your kid thinks the world is.