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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?

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...

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...

just cause... that's workplace culture for 90% of workplaces! So white people, unfortunately, don't have the same material incentives...

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...

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.

that person is going to understand black folks way better than your average white person.

One important caveat: we're really talking about a certain class/cultural group of white people. School's a little different but...