Nowhere To Run: Being Black In America

I read What It’s Like To Have A President Who Celebrates White Supremacy by Ezinne Ukoha here on Medium and she begins by talking about her dual citizenship in the U.S. and Nigeria. She talks about how at one time being a U.S. citizen was seen as a blessing to those in Nigeria. And then, she moves on to talk about how having that U.S. citizenship isn’t the blessing it once was, once you stop to observe the climate that surrounds black people in America.

Understand that when I use the word blessing, I don’t mean in the religious sense. I mean a blessing as in…