10 years later ... When you look like me, you're only 'good enough' until they say you're not
A decade ago, I wrote for The Black Lens as an 11-year-old African American student. Even at that age, I had already seen too much–racism, hatred, and, for lack of a better word, a kind of purified evil. My adolescence was burdened with struggles that no child should face in a nation that claims its Constitution protects us all equally.