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    Balancing Act: 'You can wear love on your sleeve.' Nanny who created annual Stand Up To Hate Play Date is making buttons for people to show their allyship

    by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune Jun 11, 2020 3 minutes

    It grew, like so many beautiful things do, from a low, dark place.

    Ferrai Pickett, who is black, was working as a nanny for two white families in Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood three years ago when a racist note showed up in the mailbox of Heather DeJonker, one of the moms.

    "Honestly, you need to fire her because otherwise it looks like she is your modern-day mammy," the note read. "Please take

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