This Is Us
The Price of Being Pleasing
Notes on a lifetime of performing Black harmlessness
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7 min readJul 9, 2020
A lot of words have been spilled lately about white guilt and shame, but white people aren’t the only ones feeling it. During a recent lunch, one of my favorite former students informed me that, in the last month, he’d attended five official and two unofficial Black Lives Matters…
