Politics

Driving While White

The times they are a-changing. Or are they?

Photo by Ruben Hutabarat on Unsplash

Millions of years back, my dark-skinned ancestors migrated north to less sunny climes. Because none of the CVS stores of that time carried overpriced vitamin D, evolution lightened us up. Sometime later, many of us crossed the ocean to America, where we quickly removed the indigenous population, fouled pristine…