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Sincerely Saron: Some Africans are more African than others

I recently made a video detailing the reasons I gravitated to wearing extensions/wigs more while abroad. I would go between being braided and wearing a weave – the same way I did at home when I’d feel like a look change. But after about 2 years, I started to notice a difference in the way I was perceived (by the police) and maybe unknowingly by some members of society.

Adulting 101: It’s not about you

You will get to a certain point of healing and maturity, where you will have an ‘aha’ moment, that the people who have hurt you had nothing to do with you or what you have done; that we don’t have enough power to control people’s actions towards us and sometimes it’s not about you at all, but it has everything to do with themselves.