Any Jack & Jill members here?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have to be a mocha mom, or is it enough to have mocha children?

From the website: (via Google--it only takes seconds to find answers)

Mocha Moms is a support group for mothers of color who have chosen not to work full-time outside of the home in order to devote more time to their families and communities. While many of our members have eliminated employment altogether, others work part-time, flex-time, night shifts, have home-based businesses, consult or freelance from home or have chosen alternative, less demanding career paths so that they are more available to their families. Our goal is to support the decisions made by our members. We will never pass judgment on mothers who choose to make or are forced to make different decisions for their families. Mocha Moms welcomes people of all religions, races, educational backgrounds and income levels. (See Anti-Discrimination Language) Anyone who supports the mission of Mocha Moms is welcome to join.

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Explain to me, PLEASE, why a place like Augusta is bad BC it discrinimates against"x" but this organization is ok? HOW?

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I know a white mom who has a black child, and she's involved in Mocha Moms. So as their website states, I don't think they discriminate against anyone due to race.

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Anonymous wrote:OP -- it depends on if you can afford it..Jack and Jill ain't cheap...
if you plan on being involved...can take up time
if you like the folks in the chapter you would be joining...if the folks are about doing things ...and have good activities...trips, workshops, little kid activities...
especially in light of the cost of belonging..
I don't belong but one of my BF's belongs in a NOVA chapter and her chapter is very active...she usually invites me to the events she sponsors...girls night at her house...pumpkin carving, kennedy ctr play...i am not fond of the people in her chapter...but...they do have good activities...even did a cruise..look at it as networking for kids..

PP, I have to ask. Why do you use ellipses instead of periods? This is an honest question. If you wrote in full sentences, with periods and capital letters, you would sound more intelligent and your writing would be much easier to understand. You would also be less recognizable from post to post.

Just skip my posts if you are allergic to ellipses...

It's really obnoxious, though. (I'm not the PP.)

Get over it ...

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Anonymous wrote:Question - why would someone from PG County need to join J&J? Your ENTIRE county is black, so your children do not need the benefit of J&J (activities with other black children, etc.) because they would be getting that everyday at their predominantly black schools. I think this just shows that membership is perceived to be a badge of honor for those blacks who think they've made it as opposed to an organization that connects black families to activities that they can do together.

The county may be majority Black but a small percentage of those people have the pedigree that is desirable for J&J. Government workers, first generation college (think Strayer, online degrees, kids aren't going to college, etc...). This may be a sweeping generalization of the county but the true "J&J types" of PG County are few and far between. That county isn't considered the 9th ward of DC for nothing... a lot of people feel that it is extension of Ward 8.

It's nice that you recognize the stupidity of your statement.

Really? A good number of people in the PG County Chapter of J&J schlep their kids to upper NW privates. None of the houses in that county have retained pre-bubble value, highest percentage of short sales and foreclosures in the metro DC area. I also see more MD tags at DC public and charter schools than should be allowed. My statement may be a generalization but it certainly isn't stupid. You [or your family members] may be the exception but PG (or Prince Georges as the new money calls it) County is not rife with legacy J&J members.

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All Hilarious AND true.....+++++1
Most legacy Jack & Jill people I know wont even affiliate with the organization as an adult with their own kids. Its become a joke,

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Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

If this bugs you in 2015, I'm assuming that you are not in a sorority.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

If this bugs you in 2015, I'm assuming that you are not in a sorority.

Nope. Went to public school.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

If this bugs you in 2015, I'm assuming that you are not in a sorority.

Nope. Went to public school.

Um, they have sororities in most of the public universities. But okay.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

If this bugs you in 2015, I'm assuming that you are not in a sorority.

Nope. Went to public school.

Um, they have sororities in most of the public universities. But okay.

LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

If this bugs you in 2015, I'm assuming that you are not in a sorority.

Nope. Went to public school.

Um, they have sororities in most of the public universities. But okay.

Gosh you're right, I'm an idiot, I had a senior moment while typing that out.

I went to a small private school, there was no Greek life there.

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Sounds like reverse segregation.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks to this thread, I'm going to join the Mocha Moms group. Give it a go anyway.

Mocha Moms and Jack and Jill are totally different types of organizations. I belonged to Mocha Moms when I was SAH and did not live in the DMV.

I understand that. We are too poor to join J&J and even if we weren't, I'm pretty dark and the foundation of which this organization was built on bugs me enough to where I would never seek them out, even if we were affluent.

Mocha Moms seems like it might be a good fit for me. I'm a SAHM in a new area and feeling kind of lonely without an established base. This might be a good way for me to make some friends and complain about how hard it is to be a homemaker while lounging in yoga pants at Starbucks. (Kidding!)

1) uh most everybody I know in J&J is darker completed
2) you do realize that colorism( legacy of slavery, exploitation and colonialism) is not just confined to the history of J&J?
3) Do you vote, because black folk of all hues use-ta couldn't do that either