Ashley Thomas

I just finished the film on Netflix and wow. I feel sorry for her and more so for her boys. She needs therapy to deal with all of her childhood trauma. She has used “becoming black” as a way to cope with her childhood. When she said, "I'm never going to be that 12 year-old looking 18 year-old white girl in Montana again, wearing Amish dresses. I can't live in that particular mode ever again. I'm not going to subject myself to the punishment of my parents all over again." At that moment I thought so become a better white woman, be better than your parents. But “becoming” a black woman or rather masking your true identity is not the answer.