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Living Half Black in a World of Performative Allyship
I realized with such stunning certainty that I did not live in the myth of the post-Civil Rights America that, for 41 years, I believed I did. It was like the moment that Neo awoke after he was unplugged from the Matrix. I saw the world I lived in for all of its ugliness and cruelty and I was broken.
Owning Up to My Racism
In months prior, my black colleagues had tried to be subtle about my need for growth, but I hadn’t seen it. I hadn’t wanted to see it.