I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I was very unhappy. I felt like I was constantly self-sabotaging in order to conform to religion, culture dynamics. I was censoring myself. I was shutting down inside.

Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn't create racism, but racism created race.

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