By Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing Writer
Published May 6, 2021
As you grow older, the hope is that we also grow wiser and this usually begins with understanding a big chunk of the advice given, so patiently, by our mothers. Although each of our mothers is wonderfully unique something is comforting and familiar about the African, African-American, Afro-Latino mother experience that bonds us, entering us kids into a type of hidden club. Inside this clandestine, labyrinth of memories shared by the “collective”, we can almost hear our mothers, dishing out sage advice like - “Because I said so!” and “If your friends jump off a bridge, are you going to jump too?,” “Don’t make me get up,” “Jesus, take the wheel” and my personal favorite “What part of no don’t you understand?”