Mixed: beaten for looking “too white”

Selena “Jazz” Baker
Salisbury, MD

Tonight makes three years since my assault. There was blood on the sidewalk when I walked to work this morning. Three people were just shot a mile away. I can’t make sense of this violence, why we turn inwards and hurt each other.


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