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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   LEHI — Michelle Love-Day listened to a friend’s tearful fears   
   with the kind of aching empathy that most black mother’s wish   
   they didn’t understand.   
      
   “Her children are 3 and 4,” Love-Day recalled. “And she was   
   crying as she said, ‘My kids are so cute right now. We go in   
   places, and everyone loves them, like they’re little puppy dogs.   
   But at what age do my kids turn into a threat?’   
      
   “Then I started crying,” said Love-Day, the mother of a 19-year-   
   old son.   
      
   Love-Day, Nikki Walker, Toni Ragsdale, Stephanie Hesleph, Rita   
   Martin, Bridget Shears and Carol Matthews Shifflett all   
   understand this fear in their bones.   
      
   In fact, when it comes to the realities of being a black mother,   
   especially to black boys, no words need to pass between them to   
   communicate the deep, unmitigated fear they carry when it comes   
   to the risks their children must navigate in even the most   
   mundane circumstances.   
      
   In recent weeks, with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George   
   Floyd, the trepidation that lives in the back of their minds   
   since those babies graduated from diapers to grade school, is   
   now the collective horror of a country that still can’t seem to   
   grasp the realities of the dangers they face every day.   
      
   “I worry every time they leave out the door that they might not   
   come home,” said Stephanie Hesleph, who has three sons — ages   
   27, 33 and 40. “I grew up fearing the police. My parents   
   instilled that in me. But this generation, they’re different.   
   They do not fear the police.”   
      
   And that, especially for black mothers, is both a point of pride   
   and a terrifying realization.   
      
   The mothers interviewed for this story said they know that all   
   mothers worry about their children. They hope they choose good   
   friends, apply themselves in school, stay away from drugs and   
   alcohol, and avoid unnecessary physical risks.   
      
   “But the uniqueness of challenges for black mothers is that we   
   have at least an extra layer of fear that we have to share with   
   our children, our sons more specifically,” said Walker. “Moving   
   from New Jersey to Utah amplified that requirement for me as a   
   black mother.”   
      
   Teach your fucking brats that Democrats are the enemy and to   
   respect the law.   
      
   They'll live longer.   
      
   https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/6/11/21286075/black-mothers-   
   moms-live-deep-fear-safety-children-especially-boys-what-age-   
   kids-turn-into-threat   
       
      
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