I know for sure that if I had not been a Panther, I would not have been able to raise my son the way I did.

A reflection on how involvement with the Black Panther Party shaped the speaker’s values, resilience, and approach to parenting, particularly in raising her son.

She credits her political education and community experience as essential to becoming the kind of parent she wanted to be, implying that activism provided discipline, purpose, and a framework for nurturing her child.