'For centuries, your ancestors brutally established the color of one’s skin as the basis for the ranking of power, privilege, and worth'
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A rerouted bus stop had me walking through an unfamiliar street in Berlin one evening where I encountered a man who asked me for a massage. Entschuldigung…”Why do you interpret my appearance as my resume? As a summary of my experience, my expertise, and my worth. Does my smallness intoxicate you with delusions of power?
Your ancestors were the first to reduce me to an exotic fetish. You and your friends carry on this tradition when you salivate about women who look like me and, oh god, how they are so tight.
Is it the brown color of my skin? The supposed mark of toiling under the sun. You assume that I am suited for dirty work, which will leave me covered in the sweat, dirt, and grime of your own skin. Like a domestic worker. You probably don’t know that word. It is used by labor activists demanding respect and recognition for the value, respect, and dignity of scrubbing other people’s homes. You probably know this work more as “the maid.
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