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Maybe I missed it but what did she say that was wrong. The reality is that we all have those moments when we look at our kids and are like “…please dear GOd don’t have a fit in here” Please explain to me the issue with her statement.

Its true what she said was not WRONG wrong, but it did make me wince a little bit… Most black people have all heard that statement before… “Don’t do XYZ around all these white people!”… But not right in front of white people though!.. My mom would never say that while white people were listening.. And Sherri sat up there and said it on national TV… She might as well have said, “Don’t embarrass me around all these crackers!”, because that’s kinda how it sounded. That was my only problem with it.

But for those of us mothers that have been out with our children we felt her pain.

Ditto to what Wizz said.

After given this some more thought I believe that this really goes back to the days when for Blacks it was important not to give White folks an inch in public spaces. Going to store in the south back in the Jim Crow days was like walking on eggshells. If your kids acted up, White folks would have used Jim Crow as an excuse to kick you out of the store. What is sad that here in the 21st century, folks still have kept this same mindset when White folks are present.

The reality is that as mothers (can’t speak for fathers) the last thing we want is to be embarassed by our kids. How many times did your mother give you the evil eye from across the room or better yet while in church. Again I feel her pain.