Emily Raboteau was 10 when her father gave her “the talk.” Growing up in America “would be tough,” he told his young daughter and her two brothers. “Because of White supremacy, some people would think negatively of us, no matter how smart we were, no matter how poised, how well-dressed, well-spoken, or well-behaved. We would have to work twice as hard to get half as far.” Raboteau’s father, a professor at Princeton, punctuated his warning with a piece of family history: His father had been shot by a White man who was never punished.
