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.

Photo Credit: wundervisuals, 2023

“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.