I’m Tired of Having to Be an ‘Asset’ to My Race

A lifetime of being a ‘good Black’ is wearing me down

Jeremy Helligar
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6 min readDec 22, 2020

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Two weeks ago, my husband and I moved from New York City to Kingston, New York. As relocations upstate from Manhattan go, ours was a relatively smooth one, but it was still riddled with hiccups.

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Jeremy Helligar
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Brother Son Husband Friend Loner Minimalist World Traveler. Author of “Is It True What They Say About Black Men?” and “Storms in Africa” https://rb.gy/3mthoj