How My Racist Dentist Gave Me A Raging Toothache

Or how being a Black woman in a white world can be really hard sometimes

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This summer, I had a terrible toothache. I went to see my white male dentist, who told me it wasn’t my tooth that was aching; it was my gums. I was surprised because I could feel the pain in my tooth. In September, the pain was such that I went back to see him. I asked him to do an x-ray to check the tooth and he outrig…