She offers the church a window to see what black boys face as they grow into men in America. Through her recent book Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope, writer and speaker Jasmine Holmes amplifies the voice of black Christian mothers by highlighting her own concerns and advice for her toddler-aged son Wynn. We know that it is difficult for our white Christian family to completely understand our fear and pain, but we need our brothers and sisters to hear us. We struggle against our hearts hardening. We are praying with everything in us that our son or husband or nephew isn’t the next name printed on police brutality protest signs.īlack Christian mothers in this moment need comfort, support, and direction. When we hear the news of their deaths, our chests tighten and our tears flow. George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown not only could have been our sons, but they were our sons. As he breathed his last obstructed breaths, George Floyd called to the mother who died before him, “Momma! Momma!” Black mothers, in our communal tradition, hear Floyd calling to us, too.
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