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Stop Telling Me How I Should Feel About Race
I can’t un-feel how I feel in reaction to my personal experiences tied to race
Earlier this year, I published an article here on Medium titled, “Dating a Minority Doesn’t Make You Any Less White”. Initially, it generated some traffic, but nothing too compelling. Soon after it had been published, it was even selected by the Editors to be curated within the topics of “Equality” and “Relationships”. Even then, it still didn’t receive a huge uptick in the number of reads or views despite the fact that it was curated.
After a while, I had sort of forgotten about this article, as I do with many of my other articles that don’t end up catching too much reader attention. That is, up until it recently resurfaced.
One unassuming day in early September, I noticed a significant spike in metrics for my article which virtually came out of nowhere. It started off small, growing from a double-digit number of views, to triple-digits, and eventually quadruple-digits (which for me was a pretty big deal) — Full disclosure, I…
