Learning to Own My Blackness
It’s not funny, politicized, or insignificant—it’s mine
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8 min readFeb 7, 2019
Out of my first day of middle school, I thought for certain I’d killed a man. I’d kicked a rider off his bike into moving traffic after he rolled by and called me “sale nègre”—“dirty n*gger” in French. I’d been waiting for the little green man to light up so I could cross the street when I noticed the biker coming from my…
