Aurora Magazine 2018

IT IS DIFFERENT BEING YOU

S U S A N D O L L E

I generally don’t even think about race I don’t need to

WHY IS THAT?

I don’t think of myself as white first, or even at all, except oc- casionally I am reminded like when I am in an unfamiliar section of the city toward evening or when I join you for church

CHOICES I make

WHY DO I NOT

AND YOU

ALWAYS

question belonging ?

question belonging

I AM A MINORITY WHEN I

young, lunch with the blue hairs woman, speak up in a meeting of men

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