One day we'll get all the way into how classism is a common middle-class negro means of self-assertion in the face of racism. https://twitter.com/robdubj/status/918986469435305985 …
Also fuck it wasn't just middle class negroes who felt that way about Cletus vs Connor. Plenty of us were "working class" at most.
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And yeah a lot of it is problematic and a lot of it we need to grow past but...
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If you've never lived in a country that still isn't 100% certain you're a human being not a beast of burden... you don't get it.
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If you've never been expected to prove again and again that you're a human, not only for yourself but for ur whole race... you don't get it.
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(I feel like maybe I was too subtle about the heavy layers of irony and self-criticism and self-deprecation in some of these tweets...)
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