Thank you for this addition, Charmaine. I tried to address just the basics cause there’s so MUCH that can be said about race including colorism and anti-Blackness. You’re definitely right that these systems need to be talked about, but there’s so much there that they require their own separate article.
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Leah is a community storyteller from Mississippi who writes about Black folks, love, and magic. She is the author of Apocalypse Still and About the Boy.