Joan, you know I love you, and you know I'm a white-looking mixed race woman with a Black father and a side of Jewish, just for flavour.

I walk a fine line between two worlds. I get all the privilege, until I don't. I wear my Star of David loud and proud the same way I walk in my father's shoes.

I can't speak for the Black community, but I can speak for me and what I see. We want someone to listen. We want someone to understand that racism and colourism isn't dead, that there's a sexualization of our women and our "attributes." There's a generational trauma there, good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to sit at the table.

It's no different, in my mind to the generational trauma my Jewish ancestors felt back in the day, people who never knew their grandparents, others that did, but were so damaged. And seeing the rise in antisemitism brings it all back.

I don't know about the Royal texts, but I do know that it probably happened within a context and a history that made her feel "not quite good enough."

Black women are angry because for generations we've had to hold it down while our familes fall apart. We've had to cook entrails and feet to try to feed our families. We've been seen as a superhuman force while not being quite human at all. It's not unlike the strong Jewish mother who holds it all together no matter what, in my mind.

I think you did absolutely the right thing, you wrote, you asked the question and opened the dialogue.

Like I said, I walk a fine line between both worlds.. Black women want to be heard. They don't feel heard. They don't feel valued. They're angry because they're exhausted. You can only fight for so long. You can only scream, "I am worthy,"into the wind so many times.

We both, Black and Jew have a history of oppression and should, to my mind, stand firm together, because if we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

Why do you think my ancestors hooked up with Jewish people and Indigenious populations? The did it because they were all marginalized people.

Keep asking questions. Keep trying to keep the dialogue open because we need more talking. We need to discuss out histories, our common ground. We need intelligent discourse.

I follow Rebecca, she's an intelligent and open minded person. She will answer the question if you ask. So will people like @KayValley.

I don't thing your comments on the attire were race-based at all. I think they were more from your own feelings of morality and modesty. That's okay.

This was long winded, I guess what I'm saying is keep being you, keep asking questions and keep having the conversation. I'm here for it and we desperately need it.