This is beautiful and little sad. I, too, have gotten the "hey, are you..?" questions, and the random strangers speaking to me in their native tongues, leaving me baffled and remorseful that I can't understand them/am not one of them.
This is beautiful and little sad. I, too, have gotten the "hey, are you..?" questions, and the random strangers speaking to me in their native tongues, leaving me baffled and remorseful that I can't understand them/am not one of them.
Yes. That remorse is real—I know that desire to belong, being a Black person in the US, and it saddens me I can't ease their yearning.