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1/x Check out "Life As a Double Minority" by the heterodox Quincy Bingham @quincylsb:
"I have been carefully weighing my words in public because for the first time ever, I'm frightened. I’m frightened because my real thoughts, ideas, and experience...
"I have been carefully weighing my words in public because for the first time ever, I'm frightened. I’m frightened because my real thoughts, ideas, and experience...
2/x "...don’t match up with which what I keep hearing every day.
While I hear the prevailing narrative on social media, the national news media, and colleges about racism, systemic racism, and white privilege, my primary concerns remain the things I can control...
While I hear the prevailing narrative on social media, the national news media, and colleges about racism, systemic racism, and white privilege, my primary concerns remain the things I can control...
3/x "There were some coworkers and managers that I feel were racist... But even if I was correct, ... I never felt helplessly shrouded in the darkness of racism that prevented me from achieving anything in life...
4/x "Honestly, the most racism I’ve experienced is white liberals up north attempting to convince me my experience being a black man is wrong, somehow flawed, or worst, an anomaly...
5/x "I do not feel free to express myself. I feel trapped in a system that stifles my independent thoughts in favor of racial identity norms. [...] I call it the bigotry of low expectations. [...] Being black means I’m incapable of success without their help.
6/x "[C]hange, in America, today, will not come by propagating narratives that ultimately disempower people and place their fate in the hands of either the government or worst, the...'care-taking' of one race for another."
7/x Read @quincylsb's whole essay, and others like it, here, at his Medium page: https://medium.com/i-brought-receipts/life-as-a-double-minority-f7d8f5282464
