This is not my first sojourn in Barbados. I spent four days here as a journalist in 2018. Barbados tourism arranged for a Bajan driver to get me from place to place, saving everyone the danger of my driving on the left side of the road in unfamiliar territory. So here we are, a Black man and a white woman, touring the sites and taking meals together, and I never got a dose of side eye from people of any color. The fact that I notice this says a lot about me and my culture.
Thank you for sharing this eye- and mind-opening experience with your readers. You've opened my heart a bit wider, as well.