Blacker Than Bald Eagles
Editor’s Note: This piece was awarded an honorable mention in the Pulse writing contest, “On Being Different.”
In the 1990s, having grown up in Texas and spent the summer before college playing semiprofessional basketball in Australia, I went to medical school at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, in Mexico.
While there, I experienced a striking and unexpected sense of safety. Although the people there normally never see Black people, they treated me differently from the way Black people are treated in the US.
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