Anessah Barker
Nov 7 · 4 min read
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In her article, “Why Being Angry in the Age of Trump is Deadly”, Ezinne Ukoha writes, “Everything is about race, it always has been.” Though I’ve tried to dress up the sentiment and at other times, flat out deny it, the truth is the truth is the truth. Nothing has made me more aware of racism and how insidious it can be until I had children. As if my own traumas as a black woman in America were not enough, I have had to watch my boys become members of a society, that more often than not, will want to see them…

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Anessah Barker

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Both a keeper and a weeper. A writer, a wife, a mother, and a life long scholar. BA English Literature(2013), M.LIS(2018), current MSW student. She/Her/Hers

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