This Is Us
White Supremacy in Me
Light-skinned and part of the problem
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10 min readAug 2, 2020
When I was in my senior year of high school I argued against affirmative action. My AP history class had taken a field trip to Selma and we’d spent the day wandering around, drinking in the history of the small city. I was one of two Black students in a class of 30. Ashley and I were bound at the hip until we went our…
