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2nd Week Into Black History Month And I’m Already Tired

Jeffrey Rousseau
4 min readFeb 28, 2019

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This month has certainly…been something. The shortest month in the year and the Blackest…has not been fun. Now, before I go on , I want to be very clear about the point of these articles. I’m not speaking to, nor am I writing any of this for Black folks.

See, we have enough on our plates with our respective lives and so forth. No, this article and others are for certain demographics to understand that they can do better. Because these issues aren’t new and are not the fault of us blessed by melanin.

February 6: Cindy McCain Thought She Saw Human Trafficking

So for context, Cindy McCain saw what she thought may have been a case of human trafficking. What “tipped her off “was that the parent and child looked as if they were of different ethnicities from each other.

So in her grand wisdom, she asked the authorities to check on the child. Turns out nothing was wrong. Again, she made a judgement that something was possibly wrong based off the color of their skin and etc. Hmm, there’s a definition for this line of thinking.

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Jeffrey Rousseau
Jeffrey Rousseau

Written by Jeffrey Rousseau

Award winning journalist, committed to amplifying marginalized voices, and elevating the accuracy and quality of reporting.

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