"Kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. They're looking around wondering if we've been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we truly value."
In this moment of societal reckoning over anti-black racism, I can't help but think about how this journey, at so many turns, has been compounded in its complexity because I am a Black mother.
Sixty percent of businesses in the childcare industry are minority-owned, but historically these workers are vastly underpaid and under appreciated. As Motherly reported last year, on average, America's childcare workers make less than Amazon delivery drivers.
