Who Are You Calling Black?
When racial descriptions go wrong?
6 min readSep 6, 2021
Black is beautiful, and it sometimes has distinct advantages, like helping me to stand out in a sea of White. This was reinforced several years ago during a New Year’s trip to Tasmania. After a day of sailing, my travel mate and I ended up in the wrong pick-up spot, where we waited an hour for our ride back to the hotel. When the car finally arrived, the…