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brer cat

(27,090 posts)
4. Good article, ism.
Sun May 3, 2015, 11:00 AM
May 2015

This part rang so true to me:

"What's clear is that regardless of how I showcase my Blackness, we are expected to interact with our identity to make talks of race and oppression more digestible for people who are uncomfortable."

If we whites still require people of color to suppress their very essence to make us more "comfortable" then we have not moved at all beyond white supremacy.


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