Dear White People Who Tell My Husband to Take Personal Responsibility

From one white person to another, I have a few things to say

Kerala Taylor
6 min readMar 29, 2022

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It’s as predictable as gravity. Whenever I write a story suggesting that my Black husband has, at any point during his 45 years on the planet, been a victim of racism, a commenter will counter with the “personal responsibility” argument.

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Kerala Taylor

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com