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But the truth is, I do see color. I see it every single day. mutha magazine allison
Finally, Allison’s relationship with Mutha Magazine itself reflects a broader shift in feminist media. Mutha did not seek to offer solutions (there are no "10 Ways to Reclaim Your Identity" listicles). Instead, it provided a literary witness. Allison’s voice is the proof in the pudding of the magazine’s mission: to create a sanctuary for the messy, the angry, and the ambivalent. She writes not as a parenting expert, but as a combatant in the trenches of early childhood, sending back dispatches that are raw, darkly funny, and devastatingly true. Here is the full text of the featured
When we walk down the street, I see the way people look at us. I see the glances, the double-takes, the curiosity. I see the store clerks who follow him a little closer than they follow me. I see the world that he is growing into, a world that will judge him by the color of his skin before it ever asks him his name. Mutha did not seek to offer solutions (there
If I didn’t see color, I wouldn’t see him. I wouldn’t see the specific challenges he faces as a black boy in America. I wouldn’t see the privileges I hold simply by having white skin—privileges he will never have. I wouldn’t see the need to have hard conversations with him about how to act if he is ever stopped by the police, conversations my parents never had to have with me.