A 45-Year-Old Man Shared An Emotional Story Of Having A Bandage In His Skin Tone For The First Time
A 45-year-old man's sincere and emotional response to something as typically unremarkable as putting on a bandage has— and made others aware of how simple products can have a profound effect on issues as complex as race.
Apollon, the vice president of research at Race Forward, a nonprofit that builds awareness for racial justice, was looking to spend the rest of his Flexible Spending Account funds when he came across"As a black person, I'm not used to seeing products geared to me in national online retailers," he said."The default is typically some type of Caucasian skin tone."
"I could hardly see it," he said of the bandage on his skin."It just blended so perfectly in a way that if I was walking into a room, no one would even notice it was there." "I just started feeling sad that I'd spent my entire life — 45 years — perhaps without ever having experienced that before. It's impossible to say, but how might I have felt if I'd had that experience of care as a kid," he said."It's a product that said to me, 'We see you. you're valued.'"Of course, he noted, that he knew the typical beige coloring of bandages could also be for a medical reason: visibility.
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