A White Woman Told Me She Doesn’t ‘Think Of’ Me As Black. Here’s How I Reacted. |
A White Woman Told Me She Doesn’t ‘Think Of’ Me As Black. Here’s How I Reacted.
The Huffington Post
2021-10-16
Laura Cathcart Robbins, Guest Writer
Photo courtesy of Laura Cathcart Robbins
“Irrespective of the neighborhood in which I live, regardless of how articulate I might seem, all I am and all I ever will be to some people is Black.”
Once, as I was putting the final touches on the live auction program for my sons’ school, one of the committee moms expressed surprise when I told her that I wanted to get more Black parents involved the following year.
“It’s funny,” she said. “I don’t really ever think of you as Black. I’ve always just seen you as one of us.”
One of us…
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