Karen Leonard
Jan 5, 2021

The point of this piece was not to ask white people to hate themselves or their skin colour. you can love yourself and your skin while also hating the construct of race and whiteness. But those who do not start to separate the two and deconstruct what it actually means to be white and to be something other than white are bound to fall into a racist status quo because they don't know any different or any better.

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Karen Leonard
Karen Leonard

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