Woman Finds Mom’s Birth Certificate, Realizes Why She Always Wore Makeup To Bed

Privilege

PBS

“In escaping the Jim Crow south, coming north, and marrying my white father, she must have thought gaining white privilege was worth the price of losing family ties and her authentic self.” 

“The irony was that in gaining white privilege, in passing for white, the onslaught of racism was splayed open to her. Its ugly face could now be shared with her, a “white” woman who would understand and possibly agree.”

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