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On Being Black in San Francisco

by Kimberly Reyes

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? (2021). On Being Black in San Francisco. In Kamiya, G. (ed) The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco. Chronicle Prism, pp. 69-73

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And this may be my real issue: that I can’t sit comfortably at the top of the caste system I’d worked so hard to conquer and just enjoy it. I hit all the goalposts. I have all the right schools and corporations on my resume. I live in the right house, in a decent neighborhood. I’ve been thin enough; my hair has been long enough; and I’ve lived in the Instagram light of contour as my successful (white) boyfriends pay for my (terrible) IPAs at the ballpark as I make sure to overtip the Black and Brown servers, wondering how it’s gotten to the point where I, too, need absolution. I’ve “made it,” but sometimes wonder, what’s the point?

—p.72 missing author 2 days, 23 hours ago

And this may be my real issue: that I can’t sit comfortably at the top of the caste system I’d worked so hard to conquer and just enjoy it. I hit all the goalposts. I have all the right schools and corporations on my resume. I live in the right house, in a decent neighborhood. I’ve been thin enough; my hair has been long enough; and I’ve lived in the Instagram light of contour as my successful (white) boyfriends pay for my (terrible) IPAs at the ballpark as I make sure to overtip the Black and Brown servers, wondering how it’s gotten to the point where I, too, need absolution. I’ve “made it,” but sometimes wonder, what’s the point?

—p.72 missing author 2 days, 23 hours ago