How My White Silence Nearly Wrecked My Relationship
<p>“I need white people to talk to white people about white people,” my boyfriend says in exasperation after another old acquaintance writes him to see how he’s holding up. For days he’s been fielding texts, emails, and Facebook messages from long-lost white friends concerned about his well-being.</p>
<p>He doesn’t know how to respond or even care to.</p>
<p>TV screens and phones endlessly report injustices as Black Lives Matters protests roll across the land. Friends post selfies at the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis. Formerly innocuous Instagram accounts alternate between Only-fans aspirant thirst traps and woke reprimands. Everyone is trying to make sense of everything all the time.</p>
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