On May 30, after the repeated backlash against UES Mommas, Addy Spriggle, a 38-year-old resident on the Upper East Side, asked the group’s administrator Lindsey Plotnick Berger to consider adding a Black moderator.
Many Black mothers in the group believed Berger had censored their conversation, removing posts about police brutality and colorism.
The Facebook group was eventually resurrected by Thursday of last week, and it now had two new moderators, a Black woman and an Asian woman.
The new groups like UWS People of Color Allies and Anti-Racist Parents of NYC have started recruiting members from UES Mommas and other New York parenting groups.
“A lot of people of color on Facebook have to join groups that are focused on being a parent of color, because we aren’t safe posting in groups that are majority white,” said Nevette Bailey, 39, who was shut out of the UES Mommas group for supporting Spriggle’s campaign for a Black moderator.
