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The implicit pressure on black students, black writers, black artists & black professionals in majority white spaces to feel as if they have to represent an entire demographic of people by never making a mistake takes an enormous & too often unaccounted for psychological burden.
I remember having conversations with my parents where I insisted it wasn’t my job to represent All Of Black People. Looking back I don’t know if I was too naive to realize how I affected my white peers’ idea of blackness or if I already knew not being racist is white folks’ job.
Unfortunately, you KNEW. Interesting how differently our parents handled this. Mine would clown HARD if I had to be the Delegation Ambassador. That was in the 80-90's. In ALABAMA. Good on you for not blacksplaining. Wears a body out. SMH
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