BLACK MOTHER'S song

Vanessa Bryant, lawyer & former wife of Kobe Bryant, kissing her daughter's tiny hand..

"Mothering has changed in Black American communities, but change has been continual and dangerous within the community. Motherhood compels itself to continue in the primal urges and the social imperatives within culture. The Africanness of African-Americans has been severely distorted and those stories are in the face of America’s contradictions around morality affecting the way we parent.

Education has long been toted as the social remedy of Black Americans, but the influence of white Euro-Americans is profound. It is deep in our bones. The European culture's sense of relationship was best described when the Red People noticed God was an abstract used when it served the white man. That kind of disconnection, or rather separation from wholeness has informed the thinking and practices of the children of the grandparents of ex-slaves. These things trickle down into the 21st century so what do we do? How do we learn to think outside of the American tradition we come from, and claim as our Elder? I think the answer lies in the questions our children ask us... " - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Mother & her children !!!!