Race(y) Writing

How doesn’t race affect what I write? Maybe I’m not consciously thinking about it when I’m writing but my writing is a culmination and product of my life experiences and that is greatly affected by race. Maybe sometimes I even censor myself when writing racially themed things to avoid offending anyone but sometimes I like to use racial themes here to make people uncomfortable. Some of these kids have never been to school with someone who wasn’t white. My freshman year, after I’d told one of my first friends that I went to a high school that’d been named Most Diverse in the Nation (thanks, National Geographic) she asked me if black people say shizzle. I thought she was kidding but no, she wasn’t. I would LOVE to see her response to this question. I would have loved to have taken Tadessa’s class with her and African American Lit. with her. I wonder if Danny’ll scare her.

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