5 Phrases Your Black Friend Wishes You Would Stop Using

5 Phrases Your Black Friend Wishes You’d Stop Saying
If you start practicing now, you can probably eliminate these words from your vocabulary by Black History Month
Ajah Hales
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Jan 4, 2020
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Statistically speaking, about 75% of White people don’t even have a Black friend, but on the off chance that you are one of the White people who do, I have a message for you from your (one)…
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Written by Ajah Hales
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