#Skinfolk ain't necessarily #kinfolk

“As children in a family meant to undo racism, we were asked to learn—and to unlearn—race,” he writes. “To see one another as siblings—to see beyond our skin—but also, dissonantly, to see one another as color-coded … Those parallel lessons are, in the end, impossible to suture together.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/skinfolk-book-matthew-pratt-guterl-adoption-racism/673096/?ref=i-have-notes

#family #adoption #skinfolk #racism #whitesupremacy #memoir #writing

RT @YNB@twitter.com

As usual, @michaelharriot@twitter.com gets it.

@VanJones68@twitter.com continues to be #SkinFolk trash.

#VanJones does not, has not, and will NEVER speak for US. ✊🏾

We know who #VanJones is.

He’s shown us repeatedly. https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1600678426796765185

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/YNB/status/1600839647050887168