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Which Black experience is that again. https://twitter.com/FiveFootFine/status/1252945623474634752
Also, which voice.
All the gatekeeping. I'm TIRED.
You know what I learned in my 20s? That monolithic Blackness is the damn Matrix. I learned to Morpheus red/blue pill MYSELF.
What if I told you, there *is* no single Black experience? That Blackness is multiplicities?
You know what I learned in my 20s? That monolithic Blackness is the damn Matrix. I learned to Morpheus red/blue pill MYSELF.
What if I told you, there *is* no single Black experience? That Blackness is multiplicities?
Now, is there a necessary conversation about which Black experiences are validated by the establishment? And which get buried? Oh hell yes.
There is a conversation about which voices are given space and platforms.
Let's talk about the people who sanction alladat. We have to.
There is a conversation about which voices are given space and platforms.
Let's talk about the people who sanction alladat. We have to.
But policing my Blackness? Nah. Nope. Not when my awareness of it was constant from age 4 onward, b/c racism & white supremacy flex and change shape and find you where you live - by design.
Iono y'all. I just keep thinking that systems of oppression love it when we devour ourselves. How convenient is it to set a fire and have the victims accuse each other of arson.
