She told me to eat, pray, live, laugh, and love. To be #Blessed. To appropriate dances like no one was watching the Black girls on TikTok. To vision board the fridge and every wall, with inspirational quotes giving no credit to the Black women on Instagram. Stolen, like their hair, lips, ass, and tan.
As Paul Mooney said, “Everybody wants to be a nigger, but nobody wants to be a nigger.”
My creative nonfiction piece “White Woman Freedom” was published in Identity Theory.