At an early age, Black children are indoctrinated with the mantra of being twice as good at getting half of what they have. It’s in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the handprint on our souls. Though I don’t recall being specifically told I had to be twice as good as my white schoolmates, i got the message in other ways. Living with drug addict parents made my early life unstable. But once my Black grandparents adopted my brother and me, I felt I had to…
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