right before reading Dr. Coleman's story about her Black Husband not recieving the standard of care after an horrific car accident, I was listening to Drs @CamaraJones and @doccrearperry discuss Dr. Moore's death. Bottom line- Black people aren't valued.
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Dr. Coleman's story made me think about the White and Asian people in my family, and how being Black adjacent, they still live in a different world than the rest of us. Once, my daughter (when 5) took a pair of sunglasses from the dollar store. My husband and I noticed ...
We were in the car outside of the store. Our first time dealing with this, so we did what we always do when faced with new parenting challenges, posed the question to our family group text. 'Should we take the glasses back? Go pay for them? Have her apologize?"
Overwhelmingly all the Black people in my family said, discuss it with her, but don't go back in the store. All my non-underrepresented minority family members said some version of take it back/ have her apologize. We live in 2 different worlds. 1 where Black kids can't make
mistakes, can't do age appropriate "sins" without risking over punishment of them or their parents. But even our Black adjacent family members are oblivious to this.
We can't continue to live in 2 worlds. One were Black people know and experience systemic racism, and one where Whites, even Black adjacent ones, don't realize how pervasive of an issue it is, and fail to push for systemic change. Even when their own family's lives depend on it.
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