A Stranger with Roots
August 21, 2020
Writer Maya Jenkins reflects on her responsibility as a young, healthy, upper-middle class person moving to the city of her grandmother’s birth in the middle of a layered crisis.
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Writer Maya Jenkins reflects on her responsibility as a young, healthy, upper-middle class person moving to the city of her grandmother’s birth in the middle of a layered crisis.
“Black lives matter rolls off of my tongue, as smooth as silk. In my mind, the mantra applies to all Black lives except my own.”