Unpacking my mother’s racial pain: They chased her in class and cut her hair
6 min readJun 18, 2020
Mom doesn’t talk much about her early years in school.
Believe me, I’ve asked. But whenever conversation turns to her childhood, the chronology is scattered. She’ll talk about home life, but rarely about school life.
For a long time, that irked me because I love scrolling through the past.