The things POC can’t say, even in rebuke of racist things, because we still have to feed our children.

Maintaining a mask of ‘respectability’ because we don’t get second chances and must represent more...

Remember most POC who campaign against racism don’t get paid. Those who traffic are mostly paid.

Yet to speak up against racism makes you the race hustler.

Frankly, my preferred side hustle would be brewing Kombucha.

Maya Angelou, The Mask:

“We wear the mask that grins and lies.
It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes.
This debt we pay to human guile
With torn and bleeding hearts . . .
We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties.
Why should the world think otherwise.”