Iam a Black woman who has been married 15 years to a white woman who grew up in a middle-class, academic family which endowed her with all the safety and privileges of whiteness and left her blind to the problems of race and racism.
One of the privileges she enjoys is her family’s cottage on a tiny island in Maine, where approximately 300 other white families reside in the summer. Many of these families have been “summer-ing” at a place called Cliff Island for generations, and each new parent is excited to introduce their own kids to this idyllic place that holds such fond childhood memories for them.