Hey, Pass Me the Skin-Colored Crayon

Brooklyn Reece
Bits of Brooklyn
Published in
6 min readJul 15, 2020

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A handful of flesh-colored crayons (Photo credit: Adoption.net)

When I was little, I didn’t know much about racism.

This, in itself, was a privilege. In my white neighborhood amongst my white family friends and our white government, no one really seemed to converse about it often.

If you had asked me a few years ago, though, I would’ve said that from day one, I have lived an anti-racist existence. Even when I was a child who knew nothing…

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Brooklyn Reece
Bits of Brooklyn

(she/her) Writer. Teacher. Leftist. City enthusiast. Spreading love through words. Find me on IG @brooklynxreece or email me: brooklynreece.writer@gmail.com.