I’m Struggling to See Humanity in White People

There was a time where the pinnacle of success to me, was to receive the acceptance and validation of a white person. The approval of my white teachers, of the white administrators, and the white police officers who stopped and frisked me every day as I walked home from school. I wanted them to see in me what I saw in them. If I was good enough and knew my place, one day all of the white man with the power to…