Black woman (in person): | Hey, sometimes you communicate in a way that reinforces racist structures.
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White woman(in person): | ?
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Black woman (in writing): | Hey, sometimes you communicate in a way that reinforces racist structures. Let me tell you about my experience as a woman of color in a thorough, thoughtful and calm letter and connect some our issues to a larger historical narrative.
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White woman: | Dismisses structural problem. Takes a page out of the How To Silence a Woman of Color Handbook and commences to remark on the status of black woman's mental health, calls her angry, won't "indulge" said black woman in a conversation about her own lived experience, reduces her lived experience to a "summer book reading list" all in the same breath she insists that she is an ally.
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Black woman: | ? |
