By Shanicia Boswell — 2021
Looking into the history of breastfeeding in the Black community helped me to understand a deep generational curse.
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For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.
Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.
As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.
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