How My White Mother Helped Me Find My Blackness |
How My White Mother Helped Me Find My Blackness
The Establishment
2016-08-31
Ijeoma Oluo, Editor at Large
 The author (left) with her sister, uncle, brother, and mother |
“Hold still.”
“Mom, you’re hurting me!”
“I am not. Hold still or your headwrap won’t look right.”
“I don’t want to wear the headwrap. It looks weird. Everyone will laugh at me!”
“What kind of African are you??”
I looked up at my white mom as she tugged on the gele around my head, and tried very hard not to roll my eyes…
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