Aug 2, 2019
6 min read
The Day My Outrage Went Viral
Racist attitudes against my Brown daughter energized me to raise my voice
Not long after arriving in the United States, I took my daughter to a playground in Bethesda, Maryland, the D.C. suburb where I grew up. That day, the only other children there were a pair of white girls, who sat side by side at the top of a green plastic slide. When she saw them, my…
