A Love Letter to All the Overwhelmed White People Who Are Trying
from That White Lady Who Shared the Starbucks Video
4 min readJun 7, 2020
You may not know my name, but you probably heard about what I did.
In 2018, when my video of two Black men unjustly arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks went viral, I was thrust into an international conversation about race, and as a middle-aged white lady, I was overwhelmed, confused and ashamed, to say the least. That’s probably how you’re feeling right about now, minus the onslaught of media in your life.
