I Stopped Writing Because I Was, and Still Am, Terrified to Write

The Rich Got Me Sad and Demoralized

Kay Valley
6 min readJan 20

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Photo by Vadim Bogulov on Unsplash

I stopped writing a few months ago because I was, am, scared. Actually, I’m terrified.

The more I wrote and read, the more frightened I became. In the back of my mind, I think I knew why I was scared, but it’s taken until now for me to be able to name my terror.

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Kay Valley

Your Black friend. Radical ideas on inequity, race & poverty. Follow on Substack: https://kayvalley.substack.com/