How You Can Give The Gift Of Healing And Acceptance To A Black Girl On National Letter Writing Day
MN: Should women also consider writing letters to the Black girls that they know personally?
Tamara: Yes, I think it’s also really powerful to sit down and think about what you really want the girls in your life to know, whether it’s your daughter or your niece or the girl next door. If you were really sitting down and having a heart-to-heart with her and speaking to her as another human being, what would you tell her? Take some time and, and pick out some nice paper or pick out in a cool black girl card and write her what you would want her to know. I know that she will appreciate it and she will appreciate you sitting down, even if she doesn’t agree fully with what you told her, the fact that you sat down with love and imparted a message to her and you took time and you were thinking about her when you did it. I think that means a lot. We know that Black girls don’t always get the care that they deserve so show her that you care.
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