Leaving the US Will Never Be the Antidote to Racism
Anti-Blackness is global
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7 min readNov 5, 2020
As I read a Washington Post article by a Black American woman who traded New York for Paris, a single line triggered my wanderlust: “Paris, a city that has historically revered Black arts and culture and respected Black humanity.” Ever since Trump’s election in 2016, publications have been running stories like this about “Blaxit,” the…
