Skin in the Game: A memoir of white privilege

Kimberly Garts Crum
8 min readJul 14, 2020
Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.~

It was early 2017. White nationalists seemed to be everywhere in the months following Donald Trump’s election, waving Confederate flags and proclaiming the USA is a White nation. All this in spite of Oprah and Obama. I felt the need to apologize. “I am so sorry,” I told my…

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Kimberly Garts Crum

Essayist. Editor. Teacher. Seeker. Owns Shape & Flow Writing Instruction. Co-edits a Medium publication, LandslideLit(erary), accepting prose and poetry.