RACISM

Speaking Out At Last About That 20-Year-Old Racist Remark

It involves a blue sweatshirt, as all good stories do.

Photo by Shunsuke Ono on Unsplash

I was standing in the courtyard on a regular morning, waiting for the bell to ring. I was in 7th grade and my first class was math, which I was looking forward to as much as I would a root canal. I was standing alone on this particular…