This Is Us
Learning to Parent My Black Daughter
People can learn. I still am.
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12 min readJun 16, 2020
“Race is a mirage, but one that we do well to see…” — Ibram X. Kendi
“Would you adopt a child of a different race from your own?”
When the social worker asked me that question a little over 15 years ago, I replied almost glibly. “Of course. Who wouldn’t?” She…
