Malcolm X has a famous quote about a black man with a PhD. That quote hit the hardest when I realized there were people I dealt with on Twitter who believed black folks with a PhD was to be assumed less intelligent than white folks with the same PhD in the same field.
One of the benefits of accepting CRT's tenet that racism is "ordinary" is that you don't get too worked up about seeing that racism, or even thinking people malicious for believing it.
Still, racism can shock you sometimes, and that's not fun.
Still, racism can shock you sometimes, and that's not fun.
I still believe education is one of the primary tools we have for fighting white supremacy. Unfortunately education isn't a panacea, and we will have to push through even as we gain more education. We will have to rework the tools that have restrained us.
Let's begin with disabusing ourselves of the notion that racists will ever find us acceptable as long as we insist on loving ourselves.
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