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The Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd
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Honestly I read this whole thing and my main takeaway is that the writer's grandma was a badass nytimes.com/2018/08/04/opi…
Her grandma got sperm at an ACE hardware and yasss queen yasssss
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When I one day wrote the thing about how difficult it is for people to accept black women's authority I will have a lot of case studies.
Take me for example:
People - especially white people - have a lot of stories they tell themselves about why I am successful. Most of them boil down to me being charismatic (as opposed to accomplished) and the affirmative action bonus.
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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.
I am of the same mind on this issue as I am on drug dealers. If you're good at it then you're too good to be doing it. And if you're bad at it then you're gonna get somebody killed. It's a no-win zone.
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.
But really the near-obsessive focus on food/eating/dieting/thinness in modern interracial, mixed-class work spaces and social spaces is very, very challenging for me, too.
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At the risk of sounding self-important, I think the following thread is fairly important, especially for those concerned about or dealing with the Wokeness movement (social justice, intersectionality, etc). I speak particularly to those in the Church (Protestant & Reformed), but>
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