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any ideas about black folks' natural inclinations exist within a social context wherein black ppl were considered naturally fit...

only for manual or physical labor for the majority of our time here in America, and certainly unfit for higher level thinking or whatever.

And those ideas continue to exist not only in the unconscious or implicit biases of non-black people, but also in black folks fears...

which encompasses "stereotype threat" (which has been studied a bunch) but also the fear that I am inherently, biologically unfit to achieve

my goals or dreams or whatever. That's like... a really shitty thing to think, but I think it lurks in the back of a lot of ppl's minds.

Anyway, that's exacerbated by the fact that we just so happen to materially reward "mental" jobs far more than "physical" ones.

Athletes notwithstanding, folks with "mental" jobs, overall, make a lot more money than those with "physical" jobs. I say this not only...

because it is suspiciously convenient that the same people who invent the ideas about the inherent physical focus on blacks benefit...