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Danita's avatar

Thank you for the reminder that it’s okay to protect my peace!

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My Big Mouth & Fine Pen's avatar

Well said! I was YESing and YESing the points you made. You put into words some of the angst I have been feeling about discussing race in a white-dominant culture that wants to look and act black while ignoring or kumbayaying the pains and difficulties of being black. This faux blackness that believes racism is behind us while refusing to be on par with people who are divinely created to be black. My blackness requires your whiteness to step aside, otherwise I become some kind of confused gray creature, which may serve your purposes but certainly not mine. I'm wonderfully black. I love the beauty, and I live the (unnecessary) pain, of my ebony skin. I'm flattered by the imitation, but you respect me best when you be your best white self and respect and honor other people and their boundaries.

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