Those were the words that a white female lawyer said to me in 2016.

As a woman of color born and living in the U.S., people have always sought to tear me down. And most of the time American women (usually white) were the culprit. Do not allow such people to belittle the miracle that you are. 

If we weren't THEY wouldn't try so hard to keep us down. 

This should never ever happen in a free world.
Dear United States: please get violence committed against women of color under control. Not ten years from now but today. Thanks. 

Meanwhile--the predator and some really bad humans who aided his escape are frolicking, free.