The safety of privilege | Jeneé Osterheldt

Safety, for me, has always been an illusion.

It’s not that I live in fear. It’s that racism, and the consequences of living in a supremacist country, so inform my lifestyle that even though I’m not scared every second, I’ve been taught how to survive.

I am a Black woman in America. We know better than to trust America as a safe place.

Like Representative Ayanna Pressley said earlier this week, being a Black woman and feeling unsafe is not new.

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