I woke up to the cops pounding on my door — and came face-to-face with my White Privilege.

S.J. Elliott
8 min readMay 1, 2021

It was one of those nights. I couldn’t fall asleep. My mind wouldn’t turn off, and my thoughts were all over the place; the mortgage, work, writing, my sister, her problems with my niece— it was after 11 pm when I finally settled into a heavy doze.

DING-DONG

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S.J. Elliott

Aspiring story-teller. Ordained coffee connoisseur. I write about processing personal trauma, & my quest to be a better version of myself as a human/woman/wife.