I have Rape-Colored Skin

[qwlauren35]

33. I'm glad I did.

I am the same complexion as the author. Most people would say we look alike because they can't tell light skinned people apart...

My family's history is so complicated, with so much whiteness, and so much consensual lightening, I sometimes just feel very lost. I am light enough to benefit from white privilege. I have always been amused that I and most of my light friends have ended up with significantly darker husbands and wives. Kind of "forcing" the identity.

I'm in Maryland, and those statues and flags aren't in my face 24/7.

At any rate, I am REALLY glad that she wrote it, and I'm REALLY glad that so many white people are reading it, and having to examine hard truths. We were murdered and raped by so-called "heroes". And many who didn't do it, watched. When it comes to Washington, Jefferson, etc., they can stay up, but dammit, tell the whole story.