Sounds like mom was a lunatic.
Mom was a lunatic or the author is a liar. Either outcome is not complinentary.
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She was, at least, a denier of reality. And that alone messed up her kid's conscience and conciousness permanantly.
"A few years ago, I asked my mother why she put so much effort into concocting this Caucasian-free cocoon. She informed me that our childhood was part of an experiment she had envisioned before we were even born. “A Black person’s humanity can never be fully realized in the presence of whiteness,” she explained. Not a single day has passed since in which I have not thought about that sentence."