I Didn't Know What True Racism Looked Like Until I Married a Black Man and Had His Children
I suppose I realized things could change when I married a black man, but I didn't truly understand what it would be like. When I was in high school, I remember sitting next to a few black boys and overhearing a conversation about their lunch at a nearby restaurant."Yeah, my order was totally fine, but when I complained about it and asked her if she did it wrong because I was black, she gave it to me for free." Then they laughed.
One day we were at the zoo, OUR son, as we were now married, was screaming and I was pregnant and struggling to carry him. My husband picked him up and was walking a few paces ahead while he screamed when I saw a woman reach for her phone, point and say,"We should call someone … that's not right, something's wrong."
Until I was truly connected to a black man, I never saw the struggles which were real, I only saw the"free meal" race cards, ones who take away from true racism. I didn't see my husband handcuffed and put on the curb every time he was pulled over. I didn't see the gas station clerk following us around or the woman in the store hurrying back to cover her purse in her cart when he walked by. I didn't see those things so no, I didn't understand.
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