White Male Self Help Advice Doesn’t Work For A Black Woman Like Me

Because they aren’t written with me in mind. What works for a white man, doesn't work for me

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There’s nothing I dislike more than a self-help book written by a middle-class, Ivy League school-educated or dropout, privileged, entitled white man. The author, as it is almost always the case, is completely unaware of his privilege and assumes that everyone in the world begins at the same starting point as he doe…