The Summer I Turned Black
How I went from merely accepting my race to proudly and passionately embracing it.
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8 min readJan 18, 2023
There’s a memorable episode of the ’70s and ’80s TV sitcom The Jeffersons in which Allan Willis, the White son of mixed-race couple Tom and Helen Willis, makes an uncomfortable blanket presumption. While discussing race and jealousy with his sister, Jenny, who is Black, and several…
