#let people learn without lecturing Damn. especially when you aint even sure if you know jackshit which us half the time 😒

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Sometimes I think that non black people try to buy into blackness through consuming tons of black intellectualism or Marxism or film or god forbid music (its just unoriginal) and then try to tell me what blackness is.

It's like I'm sitting here locked in a room I can't ever leave, talking to people through the walls. And they've talked to some of the other folks in the same or similar rooms, and think they can tell me more about what it's like to live in there than I can experience.

Despite the fact that some of those folks are stupid and some are lying for money and all of their perspectives are affected by trauma.

It's like you've never tasted a fruit, but read so much about the peel alone you think you can lecture a farmer on its flavor profile?

That knowledge is far from worthless, but if you take a consumerist or intellectual approach to Blackness only to assuage the guilt prompted by your former ignorance and in the process prove yourself somehow better, somehow more than Black folks in the conversation...

Maybe don't. Like.