The only thing that kept Jodi-Ann Burey sane this summer was binge-watching Hoarders. Within three weeks she was done with all 10 seasons.
The show helped her escape from the “visceral sadness” she was feeling as a Black woman in 2020. For Burey, this year has been draped in trauma — from the string of police brutality incidents, to the everyday acts of racism that showed up in her own life.
The day before Christian Cooper’s video of a white woman calling the police on him in New York’s Central Park went viral, a white man at a Walgreens in Seattle threatened to call the cops on Burey after they got into an argument over who was or wasn’t stepping aside as they were leaving and entering through the same door.
“I was trying to hold myself from the brink of an absolute meltdown,” Burey told OneZero. And then, at the same time, there were the messages.
Every day for weeks, white women she knew (and didn’t know) emailed, texted, called, and DM’d her. They needed to let her know how bad they felt about the police killings. They wanted to…
