A Mother’s Son

Editor’s Post by Deborah Hetrick Catanese

Here is a quiz for all of you readers of Project Motherhood:

Can you identify which of the boys’ listed below are our sons?

That’s right. Can you name the son of Allison, our blog’s creator and main mover?  Or the son of Deborah, our intrepid editor?

Let’s make it easier. Tell me, which boy is NOT our son:

A.      Branden

B.      Brian

C.      Trayvon

If you answered “C”, you are correct…  Trayvon is NOT our son.

BUT SO WHAT?!  Trayvon is a mother’s son.  And Project Motherhood mourns for him.  It is that simple.  We would mourn for any mother’s son whose life is lost, especially as tragically as this one.

So please, everyone, let’s ratchet down the rhetoric and remember that the color of our skin is an accident of our birth, and it makes none of us any the better or any the worse for it.

Let’s all join together to make sure our laws and our people are working to protect all of our sons.

And all of our daughters.

Black or white.  Or red or yellow.  Whatever.

It is that simple.

[I know most of you are used to my Editor’s Posts being longer.  But honestly, there is nothing more worth saying about this that I haven’t said above.  It IS that simple.]

Yours, on a day I’m not much concerned about fashion,

Deborah