I have so many thoughts, but right now I am grateful that I was reared to be comfortable in my beautiful brown skin, to not need white acceptance to validate me, and to understand that I am blessed to be a part of a rich and diverse culture. I am proud to have passed that legacy on to my marvelously successful, fiercely proud-to-be-black adult children. We should not be pining to assimilate; we should be standing our ground that what we are owed is the respect and privileges and rights due all Americans, though those perks have too often and for too long been held out of reach by those who have appointed themselves entitled to it all.

The doctor needs to take a lesson in wokeness. Why do you think white conservatives have done their best to malign the term “woke”? They couldn’t have us telling them to their faces that we see what they have been doing and we know who we are, and are aware of our greatness in this world, no matter what is flung at us.

I thank God that He chose me to be a black woman in America, even with all the manure we must deal with from outside of us.