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The Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd
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The dude on the airplane wanted to drop some version of this on me the other day and I legit sighed and removed my eyeglasses as she spake it. Sir, I cannot see you. You no longer exist. Let me be.
I have to start lying about my job. Because they hear professor and think 1) here's my chance to try out all this brilliant rhetoric I learned on reddit and 2) an educated negro is a safe negro. And man is all of that wrong when I'm the one they're thinking it of.
At least twice a week some white stranger thinks I'm safe and I have to recalibrate their whole sense of self.
Maybe I will say I am a rapper.
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Do y'all know how many calls, emails, DMs, texts, referrals I get from white people wanting me to tutor them on something something racism? I have had managers at jobs use their position to try and force me to do it for them, social pressure from colleagues, etc.
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If you're wondering I am too good to be doing it.
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Whew. I was wholly unprepared for the white middle class woman culture of dieting. I only recently figured out that one never has to actually become thin or "fit", which I have no idea what that means. They must only perform WANTING to become it. Thus, the apps, tips, etc.
There was a template for this in my cultural toolkit. You are supposed to be eternally suspended in almost-thinness. I have no idea how to do that. To perform it, I download food tracking apps and learn to say "whole 30" every second day of the week. That seems to help.
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