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Why Can't We Be Friends?

Some of My Best Friends Are

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The Disorienting Experience of Being the Only One in a Lot of Spaces

"It was weird going to a school that was overwhelmingly white. It was weird for me," she says. "I didn't feel like I was consciously doing something in search of a black identity" She adds, "My whiteness is also race because I'm being seen for my race right now"

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