"Besides, light skinned black people aren’t the only black people who are te...

 

 

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"Besides, light skinned black people aren’t the only black people who are tested about their..."

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"Besides, light skinned black people aren't the only black people who are tested about their allegiance to blackness. Queer people, quirky black girls, black people who play rock music even though we invented it, etc. are perpetually having their blackness questioned. Our work, if we are committed to blackness, is to proclaim that we, too, are black. But we need not do that by being appalled by another black person with the audacity to question us. We also needn't minimize the aforementioned inflections of blackness–class, gender, sexuality, skin tone–to stake our claims in the muck of monolithic blackness. We should do the opposite; we should talk about those inflections and nuances of blackness not only as privileges, but rather as that which comprises a richer notion of blackness that has always existed."

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This may be my favorite line in this piece. "Queer people, quirky black girls, black people who play rock music even though we invented it, etc. are perpetually having their blackness questioned." 

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