My Dad Taught Me to Never Trust White People

He wasn’t right, but he wasn’t wrong either. I’ve been wrestling with the good and bad of his lessons ever since.

Bonsu Thompson
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9 min readJun 14, 2019

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Illustration: Yarek Waszul

ItIt was one of those father and son interactions that never leave you. Sometime in the late ’80s, when I was around 10 years old, I was sitting inside the TV room of my grandmother’s brownstone on…

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Bonsu Thompson
GEN
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Bonsu Thompson is a writer, producer, Brooklynite and 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow.