The White Men Who Threaten Me With Their Own Suicide

Writing about race and gender makes Black women a target for desperate white men who don’t want to change

“I have received many violent emails from white men over the years, but I sat with this one for a while. I tried to process what I was reading and tried to figure out what I should or could do about it. In the end, I placed it in the same folder as all the death and rape threats.” — Ijeoma Oluo