This Is Us

We Can’t Be Friends if You Ignore My Blackness

You don’t get to disrespect me and still keep me

Victoria Meléndez
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readJul 5, 2020

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A confident Black woman standing against a prairie-like background.
Photo: Btihal Remli/Getty Images

We’re not friends.

There. I said it.

You and I are not friends anymore, and in the deepest parts of me, I wonder if we ever were.

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