Dominique Apollon, from Oakland, California, took to Twitter on Friday, April 19. The researcher for racial justice shared two photos of his hand, on which he wore a bandage that blended almost perfectly with his skin tone. 

Alongside the photographs, he wrote: 'It's taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a "band-aid" in my own skin tone. You can barely even spot it in the first image. For real I'm holding back tears.'

Dominique continued: 'Not like I didn't know these strips existed. But I definitely didn't expect the complex emotions that would swirl as I watched it just ... blend in.'A seemingly trivial exercise I've repeated 1000x on my body with "regular" ones since childhood. Self-administered #antiblackness,' he added.