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I desperately wanted a hot girl summer. Felt entitled to it. The goal was to be a

chubby black girl and a spiky crop top feeling the fantasy on the streets of

Brooklyn. But then it started to freak me out and I increasingly find myself

wanting the opposite. An inside girl summer. A summer in which I cannot be

looked at, talk to, messaged. In fact, I do not want to be perceived at all. This

feeling actually crystallized last summer. This was a time when within one month

Breonna Taylor's life became a meme. The rapper no name was getting called out by

Jay Cole simply because she was reading books, making the stallion got shot and

no one would believe her. Even though he shot me, I tried to spare him. And y'all

motherfuckers is not spare me. That's crazy. That's fucked up. I go through so much shit

on a daily basis anyway. Then I have to get on the motherfucker internet where I'm

just trying to make my music. A video went viral of a young black woman being

grabbed by a group of young black men and tossed in a dumpster because they

thought it was funny. Ironically, all walls several of the guys were in black lives

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