“The thing with the ‘n word’: it’s very very confusing for white kids who have a lot of black friends and are accepted. And I can’t stand here and say that when I was 9 years old, and all my friends were black, and they were telling me ‘you’re basically black,’ that I didn’t believe that. Now I’m at a place where I’m just like ‘not everybody knows me and nobody should ever have to, like, why should I impose on other people to have to confront that question in their mind?’ You know what I mean?”
-This is a little snippet from a conversation I had last year with one of my favorite people in hip-hop, Brother Ali.
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It is rare to hear folks outside of academia talk about white privilege. How awesome it is to hear it talked about here, and in such an accessible way. Thanks for posting this!