BLM...IMMA NEED A MINUTE
"Foolish Child" Art by DICKENS https://www.autostraddle.com/tag/foolish-child/ I remember my very first experience with racism at the hands of my 5th grade teacher,Ruth Hawes (I debated using her name, but I'm done holding it back, also...she dead). I knew racism existed, but it was abstract. The stories my older siblings told of being teased or followed home. Listening to my father's stories from his years in the military, how his fellow soldiers would tell the French that Black People had tails, or his belt buckles or shoes would go missing . My mother's stories about living in Georgia in the Jim Crow era. Her fear o...