Rona Fernandez
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Couldn’t agree with you more. I’m not Black, but I can relate a little bit to what you are saying, in the sense that (despite my very real privilege as a non-Black person of color) my proximity to Blackness as a non-White person and child of immigrants, as a person of color with darker skin, as the descendant of colonized people (Filipinos), has given me lived experience of White Supremacy in addition to what I’ve studied of White people’s colonizing brutality over the centuries (stealing, raping, killing, enslaving, erasing whole histories, languages and cultures, etc.). I don’t feel like I can use the N-word (and I’m totally fine with that) but I find your articulation of why Chump and his White Supremacist minions fit the N-word definition brilliant and deeply resonant for me. Thank you.

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    Rona Fernandez

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    Writer, fundraiser, activist, dancer, wife and #stillmother who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. VONA alumnus. More words at RonaFernandez.com