Whitesplaining Whitesplaining to the Whitesplainers
White people can't presume to know what life is like for Baltimore’s brutalized Black community. So why are some of us dictating to protesters how to run the revolution?
Kera Bolonik
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Kera Bolonik is DAME's editor-in-chief. Her essays, features, and criticism have appeared in national magazines and anthologies, most recently in New York Magazine and the New York Times.
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