All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk

Dear Black woman, I’m rooting for you. Please do the same for me.

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A few months ago, I met a woman who reminded me a lot of myself. She was black, a millennial, a similar height and build to me, a wife and mother, who had taken time out of her career to raise her children — all of which were attributes I had. We even had similar aspirational goals — we both wanted to empower women by setting up support groups where…