I was born into the world of white privilege. A world that without knowing back then gives me advantages and safety above others. I learned as I aged how people with skin that differs from mine had to fear what I didn’t. And were not handed advantages as I was.
This was the life I lived. One in which I did not have to deal with hatred, stares or fear because of my tone of skin. A pigmentation that was handed down from my ancestors. This somehow entitled me in the world’s eyes.
At a young age I started to see this world and saw the wrong in it. I never understood why others hated someone due to pigmentation. In the white world, I was scared for them, not of them. Actions, not skin is what make a person.
This white world is one I can never escape, but I want to people to embrace each others difference, because we all bleed, we all feel.
This was my life, and I wish for all races to feel this secure. I wish to break this world of exclusiveness. To have everyone on the same playing field. Because we are all in this world together, brothers and sisters in the human race.
And I wish every person in the world could live without fear and feel safe in their own skin.
So, I write. Giving my characters the diversity I see. Shining light on those who don’t tend to be written or shown as a hero or someone to take pride in.
The world I live in is full of color and I wish to show that in the worlds I create. In hope that younger generations can find someone in my book to look up to. And to show a world where everyone can live in equality.
Very beautiful and insightful. Thank you for sharing and creating stories and characters that are a beautiful variety of the Universe we live in.
Thank you Angelica. I appreciate that. 💕
Thank you Angelica. I appreciate that. 💕
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Oh my Sarah! My sentiments exactly. I only had to deal with class discrimination not race on top of that. I too have always been afraid for them to. It is a world I cannot imagine. The idea that black fathers have to educate their sons, even daughters that this is a dangerous world for them because of the color of their skin. I celebrate the color of their skin and diversity. I want to know people who look different than me and most likely are not different in any other way just as my hair is brunette and someone else is blond. It is the amazing world of the scientific gene world that makes us unique and what has happened has struck me to the core even as I watch this country decline and go further backwards in time in all aspects not white, male, middle aged and rich. It is disgusting and it is time this conversation goes beyond conversation. How scary for Floyd or Cooper. I am ashamed to be white because of the hate those of my race inflict out of the sheer sadist pleasure of it.
I rejoice in all cultures different from my own convoluted one and this is why I am drawn to being a part of a study abroad program. There is so much more to this world than the US. We are small beans and need to get over ourselves.
Thank you. And I feel you. Quite right that the US needs to get over itself. I hope what we will all live in a world that embraces each others difference, and I hope that world comes soon.