This is a bar!

These are all concessions that society says shouldn’t be made for Black women like me. Due to a genetic inheritance of mental illness and being molested by a family member at age four, I’ve struggled with mental health for my entire life. I’ve been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t mentally ill, and I certainly can’t remember a time when the fact that I was deserving of love and second chances was depicted on-screen.

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Stanley Fritz

1 min readOct 27, 2019

This is a bar!

Written by Stanley Fritz

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JET mag beauty of the week finalist circa 2067. Table flipper, writer. Non respectable negro. Racist round house kicker

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