Janine Helligar

Jul 7, 2021

7 min read

RACISM

Why White America Should Feel Shame

To not feel shame is to be a psychopath — but shame can be constructive

LUCY MBUNGO, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Sniff. Sniff. Do you smell that?! Do you smell the stench of yet another bullsh*t period of “racial reckoning” in American history? As a Black American, there are so many things I want to share about how much the current state of bullsh*t offends…

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