Dear white people,
You can’t spend centuries making race matter when it comes to exclusion…then get mad when we acknowledge race in achievement.
If someone is the FIRST Black anything, that means the door wasn’t always open. We’re not highlighting color to divide we’re highlighting barriers that were finally broken.
If color “doesn’t matter,” then it shouldn’t have mattered when people were being locked out either.
We will always honor Black firsts…because every one of them represents a barrier that was broken. ✊🏾🖤
People stay in my comments under my videos talking about some “why mention that you’re a black woman in NASCAR and not just a woman?” Umm…because I’m not just a woman. I’m a black woman in NASCAR and that has never been the norm.