Racism in upstate New York
9 min readJun 6, 2022
Budget Inn. Palatine Bridge, New York, 2021.
On February 1, 2022, my mother who well into her 80s was busy doing her morning tasks. She still works and owns a Motel. I was sleeping, and the sound of an Air filter which blocks sounds from entering, went off. At first, I thought it had just gone off, but in my slumberous state it finally occurred to me it cannot just go off. I went to see what was going on. I played…