When My Husband Knows It’s Time To Use His White Privilege

Because at times, the racism is just too blatant, just too overt

Photo by Good Faces on Unsplash

On our way back home from Paris last Sunday, my white husband, my mixed-race daughter, and I decided to fly. Our flight was to leave out of Paris’ smaller airport Orly. As always, I was in a hurry to get to the airport early. As a Black person, I’m always…

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Rebecca Stevens A.

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.