Peak “Whiteness”: Episode 2

NonWhiteWorks
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

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Took my daughter to gymnastics class.

While class was in session, I sat on the bleachers and worked on my laptop, with my earbuds in.

Another class ended and this little white, blonde girl walks out and starts sobbing. I take out my earbuds and hear her saying, “I don’t see my nanny! I can’t find my nanny!”

Every other person on the bleachers (all white-presenting women) turn and glare at me, almost in unison. One of them says, rudely, “Can’t you see she’s looking for you?!”

Y’all. WTF?

I channel my inner Mariah and say, “I don’t know her,” put my earbuds back in, and go back to my laptop.

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