Thanks for Your Advice, but I Need to Be White to Follow It

When you give advice to a Black person from a place of white privilege, don’t expect us to say thank you

Rebecca Stevens
Momentum
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4 min readDec 25, 2020

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I am an anti-racism writer. I share my experiences so that people understand that racism is real; it is not the collective hallucination of Black people the world over.

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Rebecca Stevens
Momentum

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.