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It is crazy how my upbringing was SO black and SO white-adjacent at the same time. My daddy worked at a church and my mama went to schools across the state doing a one woman show about Sojourner Truth and African diaspora folktales with percussion backup.
But then I went to an INCREDIBLY MEGA-WHITE Christian school affiliated with a now-Trump-supporting church (and even at the time, it was Southern Baptist, you know, the denomination that was invented to deny that black folks could even be Christian).
And my mom's day job involved a LOT of flattering the egos of rich old whites on local cable in a super republican town (or a town run by super white republicans anyway).
Being back home I'm just remembering how hybridized my entire life was until age 15 or 16 when I started spending more time around my white peer group. And frankly how uncomfortable it was to have to assimilate into a group of very well-intentioned, very racist white folks.
And I want to say "at least it gave me so many opportunities!" But tbh, I could have gone to a really good public school magnet program in the arts OR for academics and gotten the same opportunities.
(And I would have gotten into both/either bc I was a really smart kid, lol. *tosses hair*.) I don't regret it bc I can't imagine being a different person... but if I have kids I will think VERY seriously about the advantages vs disadvantages of PWI education esp at a young age.
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