My family has always been mixed race. But it has never been post-racialPosted in Articles, Media Archive, United States on 2014-12-21 21:01Z by Steven |
My family has always been mixed race. But it has never been post-racial
The Guardian
2014-12-17
Ramou Sarr
Boston, Massachusetts
I was always terrified that my white nephew would grow up to be a racist. The events in Ferguson tested our relationship to its breaking point
It was almost 10 years ago, and my little blond nephew couldn’t have been older than five when, during a game of making funny faces, I pulled my ears out from under my hair – which always smelled burned from the flat iron I used to tame my kinky curls – and puffed my cheeks out.
“You look like a monkey,” he whispered. I asked my nephew to repeat himself. “You look like a monkey,” he said…
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