The Day My Daughter Rejected My BlacknessPosted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, United States on 2017-09-06 04:04Z by Steven |
The Day My Daughter Rejected My Blackness
The Huffington Post
2017-05-04
Theresa Sutton, Contributor
To be a black woman in 2017 is a lot of things. And none of them are easy.
“Mommy, I don’t want to be black like you.”
It came so unexpectedly, in the bath and beauty department of Target, while I was precariously perched on one foot attempting to get the last Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie from the shelf overhead.
Almost instantly, I could feel the eyes of strangers upon me. It was as though a spotlight had suddenly appeared overhead, and dozens of shoppers spontaneously generated behind me, all eager to see how I would screw up this moment…
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