Being a light skin woman at a Black Lives Matter protest
Dallas Wabbington, Reporter
June 6, 2020
"My non-black friends, I ask that you take a knee, if able." One of the many people who chose to speak in front of hundreds of protesters asked a simple question that left me lost in internal conflict. Should I stand because I am a product of a black and white couple, or should I kneel in fear of no...
I’m black. This will not be a place I call home.
The Wichitan
January 27, 2016
I will lose out on job opportunities. I will be called hurtful names, especially since I am a black, dark-skinned woman. People will suspect I want to steal from them and they will hold onto their purses if I am around with the assumption that I am uneducated and waiting to feed off the “white man...