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One of my girlfriends, Lynette K., sent this screen-grab to me a few days ago (below). After nodding in somber affirmation at its sentiment, I began reading the message that supplemented it. Now before I share the perspective-altering message she wrote me (that I just could not keep to myself), I think it’s only right… Continue reading A Girlfriend’s Love Letter
“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white boy could do, and had every intention of proving it, was not at all like the fear I heard when one of us was ill or had fallen down the stairs… Continue reading Black Fear and Black Parental Love
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