It’s JUST a Band-Aid!

Jessica Camacho
5 min readJul 29, 2020
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

I’m scrolling through Facebook and I see a flurry of excitement over Band-Aid’s announcement: a new line of bandages available in a myriad of skin tones. Neat!

. . . Cue the anger, derision, and snarky comments in 3, 2, 1:

  • It’s just a Band-Aid!
  • I’m White, who cares? It’s a Band-Aid, it doesn’t even match my skin tone!
  • White privilege means always…

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Jessica Camacho

Writer of intertwining topics—things are much more interconnected than we realize . . .