So you want to talk about race (2018)
by Ijeoma Oluo
The author is a black woman.
Race is a life of good music, cooking out, and having your hair braided.
She felt more inhibited as she got older.
Racial oppression in the US is bad.
Supposedly, race would not be a problem.
She is from "the working class suburbs."
"Privilege" is an issue.
"Color" is the issue, problem, definition of racism...
Some black people are overly aggressive.
Supposedly, racism isn't as bad and so we have less talk of it or things to stop it.
Some blacks make a beeline from school to prison.
She feels she can't say the word "nigger."
"Microaggressions." It can consume you.
Crime against South Asians are ignored.
"Pacific Islanders..." a list of little countries that must be underappreciated.
People try to hurt others saying they are racist, probably destroying the other person's validity.
She wants to do more than talk and mentions college.