She explained that in the summer of 2020, when the world was reckoning with racial injustices against Black people in America, her book sales began to skyrocket. Oluo posted on her Instagram story about her experience with the account. Many believed Oluo was behind the Instagram account until she cleared it up. In the next slide, Natale said she has also been privy to the conversations about who was running the account and the confusion stemming from its similarity to the title of a book called So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. “I am very apologetic to anyone who was harmed by the language used in the post,” she continued to write on the next slide, “I do not want the content on this page, whether it was written by myself or a collaborator, to ever cause harm to anyone.” Natale said that a group chat discussion was made to “facilitate the conversation about the harm.” She then included screenshots of messages from the group chat. A post shared by So.Informed did not censor the slur when I was adapting the text to the graphic slides because I didn’t want to whitewash history and I did not want to censor my collaborator,” she wrote.
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