Thank you for your Hesed Heart and sharing so much of yourself with us. Thank you for sharing your legacy…. every day heroes that should be recognized and celebrated along with all the other every day heroes. I’m so very sorry to hear about your mom’s health and I pray that comfort care keeps her comfortable. I pray for comfort for you and your dad and family.

So many tender memories and moments. So glad you have that couch on to sit and reflect, honor, remember. ‘Everyday heroes all over the place indeed!!’ Your moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas, aunts and uncles legacies live through your work so powerfully, in every word. Giving your mother roses today, and also honoring the thousands and millions of names we will never know who’s legacies are rich and moved the stone.

Last year Aunt Cathy got a tribute in February and it is so wonderful to get so many people in your tribute this year. Seeing and valuing the brilliance in people who aren’t necessarily on the news or in the books, especially since news and books in our white supremacist society will always favor white people, is so crucial. And understanding more about where Lace came from is also so crucial.

Thank you for sharing this during Black History Month. As I have grown up in San Diego, Bobbye and Hubert Watkins are a part of the history of my own surroundings. I think about Bobbye often as I learn more about Black history in the context of my own local area. I think about what the Watkins family had to endure and fight for in a way no white family will ever know. You sharing these stories keeps truth alive and reminds me to keep moving towards the North Star while never forgetting what has been done. It is not okay what they went through and what they had to fight for just to raise a family in San Diego, CA. At the same time, I honor the joy and strength h they had and what they instilled in our leader and friend Lace. Lace graciously shares her endowments with us in Lace on Race and I honor her as well, as I recognize living history happening around me right now.

It seems like this is a good day to return to this post. A chapter of Black history has closed with your Mom’s passing, and I can only imagine the weight of that for you. To feel the passing of time and the weight of history more acutely, now that you are on the leading edge of it in the family.

Thank you for sharing your family, your history, your insights. There is no way to know how valuable this will be in the future, but I hope it brings you some comfort to know that you are recording this history for the future–whatever it might be. Someone, somewhere, sometime, will be able to know this piece of history. Of Black History. Thanks to your efforts.

Thank you for sharing your history and family with us. I’m in awe of you being able to make this video. I’m taking care of my mom and find it hard to keep composed while talking about it. You did that and honored them at the same time.