I’m reading the comments about the Black mother who left her four children to go on a cruise, and people are saying Black women should be sterilized and calling them the worst mothers ever. Meanwhile…a white mother who killed her three children has people extending sympathy, making excuses, and still calling her a good mother. To me, they both failed their children but killing your children is obviously worse than leaving them unattended. Yet somehow one woman’s actions are being used to condemn an entire race of women, while the other woman is being treated as an individual deserving compassion. And folks still want to pretend racial bias doesn’t exist. The difference in how people talk about these two mothers says a whole lot.