💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I always think of the gentleman who ran the dry cleaners my mom brought my dad’s uniforms to. He was always nice to my sister and I, and didn’t mind that we were kids wandering around his business. 100
💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I wish I knew where he was from. But he was an immigrant from a middle eastern country. He could have been Palestinian, or Lebanese, he may have not been Arab. 100
💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026But he was a Brown man after 9/11. He liked my mom enough, trusted her, to tell her he lost so much business after the attack. That he overheard customers commenting “is he one of them?” 100
