You learn pretty quickly how to fit into white culture. You learn a lot about white culture, which means learning about white people...
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paying attention to white people, even studying white people. And that's especially true for someone like Mrs. Joy-Ann Reid.
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She went to an Ivy League school, worked in a bunch of majority-white journalism orgs, etc. You have to learn something abt white people...
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to succeed in multiple school/office cultures that are majority-white, at least I think so. Now think about the reverse...
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as a white person, will getting/keeping a job, getting good grades, getting a promotion, advancing your career really depend on how well...
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you understand black folks? How well you can navigate a majority-black space? How comfortable you can make a black person feel?
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How much you can get a black person to like you and want to help you? Even if you are depending on a black person in that way...
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9 times out of 10 it will be a black person still in a majority-white space, still following cultural norms they learned from white ppl...
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just cause... that's workplace culture for 90% of workplaces! So white people, unfortunately, don't have the same material incentives...
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to learn about black folks as black folks have to learn about whites. So on average, because of those material incentives, we "get" y'all...
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better than you "get" us. But it's the same as a white person who grows up in a mostly-black neighborhood with mostly-black friends, etc.
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