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Please stop encouraging nonblack people to check on the Black people in their lives because a lot of them are checking on strangers and it is uncomfortable. They do not understand the assignment. Thank you.
It's more about me than y'all. Because what if I'm not fine? Why would I tell you, a stranger? I wouldn't. I'm going to have to use my energy to be polite and thank you for asking. It's just more of my energy that I have to give. I'd rather be left alone.
I think the hypervisibility of anti-Black violence has given a lot of people the idea that they are much closer to individual Black people than they are.
You watch and hear about these lynchings so often than you feel a closeness to Black people that we do not feel to you.
You watch and hear about these lynchings so often than you feel a closeness to Black people that we do not feel to you.
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