Keisha Bentley Edwards

Oftentimes, people who experience racial trauma are forced to not acknowledge it as such, or they're forced to question whether or not it happened in the first place.

Oftentimes, people who experience racial trauma are forced to not acknowledge it as such, or they're forced to question whether or not it happened in the first place.

Oftentimes, people who experience racial trauma are forced to not acknowledge it as such, or they're forced to question whether or not it happened in the first place.

When you're in a smaller city, there is no way to turn away from the people who were the perpetrators of a race-based crime. And that in and of itself is a trauma, to know that someone has victimized your family member And you still have to say hello. You still have to say good morning, ma'am.

When you're in a smaller city, there is no way to turn away from the people who were the perpetrators of a race-based crime. And that in and of itself is a trauma, to know that someone has victimized your family member And you still have to say hello. You still have to say good morning, ma'am.

When you're in a smaller city, there is no way to turn away from the people who were the perpetrators of a race-based crime. And that in and of itself is a trauma, to know that someone has victimized your family member And you still have to say hello. You still have to say good morning, ma'am.

And you have to just swallow your trauma in order to make the person who committed that trauma comfortable so that you don't put your own family members at risk.

And you have to just swallow your trauma in order to make the person who committed that trauma comfortable so that you don't put your own family members at risk.

And you have to just swallow your trauma in order to make the person who committed that trauma comfortable so that you don't put your own family members at risk.

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