“Motherhood has always been this combination of pain and joy and love, and we don’t hear about the bad parts because nobody listens to women,” she told Jezebel.
Unsurprisingly, being a stay-at-home mother and fulfilling that domestic ideal was something constructed and pushed forward by men, and usually only applied to white Christian women.
“The ability to have children in a healthy way and in a healthy environment has often not been afforded to Black women in the same way that it has been to other women in the country,”. “You only need to look at what’s happening in the majority-Black city of Jackson, Mississippi right now. You cannot raise healthy children without clean water.”Grose pointed out that a lot of the cultural norms against working women were about punishing Black women, who have always worked.
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