"Indian Fry Bread" by Charles Wilgren
Poet Tiffany Midge, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has a secret to share about privilege. She prefers the white kind:
I love sandwiches, all kinds, and anyone who knows me knows that I love me a sammich! I am a sammich specialist. But what people don’t know about me and something that’s been deeply uncomfortable for me to admit, is that…I prefer white bread. Now that might not be a very politically correct thing to say, and I appreciate how that might be wrongly taken, and yeah, I know all about white bread’s nutritional content or lack thereof, and that gluten is just plain hazardous for many people, spare me the lectures, I know all about white bread, okay? But the gist is, I have white bread privilege.Read More on the Story:
Tiffany Midge: I Have White Bread Privilege (Indian Country Media Network 5/5)
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