Ridesharing While Black: Confronting Racism as a Black Uber Rider

<p>I recently returned home from traveling overseas. A moment I cherished because my skin was able to breathe.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve never felt this feeling back home &mdash; the ability for my melanin to be free from the confines &mdash; the resistance &mdash; the bondage &mdash; the surveillance &mdash; the control &mdash; and the fear provided by our American society.</p> <p>Yet, not even over a week back home, I am reminded of the violence, the invisibility and hypervisibility, and the constraints on my melanin.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/writers-blokke/ridesharing-while-black-confronting-racism-as-a-black-uber-rider-581a1586ee99"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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