Passing for black? Now that’s a twist
Lisa Respers France
Yet she is so light, with straight hair, that when I excitedly shared with Baltimore Sun that ”a new, black reporter” had been hired to cover police in Howard County, I was asked, when she showed up for her first day on the job: ”Where is the new black reporter?” ’Passing’ has its privileges and pitfalls With her bright blue eyes, white skin and sandy colored hair, my could have chosen to walk away from her family and pursue a life where no one need ever know that she was a black woman.
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