Remix: I’ll Leave My Hands Dirty.
Black women never mean it when they promise to wash their hands of anything—not even white women.
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“I’m washing my hands of the whole thing.”
My mother was the first Black woman I ever heard say this. As a child, even though I didn’t quite know what she meant, I knew what she meant.
Given that she was my Black mother, I didn’t believe a word she said.
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