Perspective: Anti-Blackness does not discriminate. Black people can be anti-Black too. When you’re falsely told that we are destined, through our inherent deficits, to be a permanent underclass — of course you’ll be tempted to rid yourself of it.
You can assume the children being teased were thought to be nerdy or were just unpopular. The problem here — well, one of the problems — is when teasing a child for being socially awkward is considered unique to Blackness. Which then reinforces the lie of Black pathology — that something is inherently deficient in us. The truth is that kids who are considered unblinking and uncool academic strivers are teased by.
I’m curious how many of these full-grown Black adults, who claim that they were ridiculed by Black kids for acting or talking “White,” were intentional about distancing themselves from other Black people as far as they could get. I don’t mean that they were into anime while their classmates were into Ashanti.
I don’t blame a young Black person for behaving this way. When you’re inundated, ceaselessly, seductively, violently, that Black is bad and Black people are cursed — falsely told that we are destined, through our inherent deficits, to be a permanent underclassAnd while some of us are more susceptible than others, we’re all vulnerable. My first real job after college, for instance, was teaching high school English in Pennsylvania’s Blackest school district.
But I quickly discovered that to be an effective teacher of these kids — who were just as pimply and awkward and silly and snotty-nosed and sweet as any other high school kid was; asMy frustration is with the full-grown Black adults who still spread the gospel of anti-Blackness, with their myopic and uncritical assessments of why they were teased.
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