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I make time to put myself into black spaces during the weekends. I visit family, go to a barbershop in a black area, willing to travel further to support black businesses, read black literature etc.
@A1 I was on an engagement in Dallas for 14 months. Do you have a dummy email? I can send you recommendations for spots to go!
I used to feel like I needed to search for Black things to do/surround myself with to make myself feel more legitimately black. I definitely think it’s important to seek “blackness” out to continuously enrich my understanding of history/modern day expressions of blackness.
But I’ve also gotten a lot more comfortable letting “blackness” be whatever I do/am. As in- I am black and my form of blackness is valid. I don’t do a lot of supposedly “black things” and used to get flack for it but it felt disingenuous.
Sure I will read the hell out of some James Baldwin or Tanehisi. Or I’ll make new kitchen creations inspired from soul food. And I can’t get enough of John Coltrane’s new album. But tending to my plants as self-care, traveling often to exercise my sense of freedom and perspective, being unapologetically vocal at work to light a fire under leaderships ass on D&I efforts—-this too is pride in being black. If doing these things while black isn’t legitimate blackness, then guess I’m just not black.
Black Twitter, my black family, and my black barbershop
This helps explain a little, thanks
Can some of you give examples of how you've lost touch with your "blackness" while on the road?
I talk to my mom, sister and cousin every week. I’m in touch. Trust.
What is blackness??
It's the same as being around other West Indian or Africans. Enjoying the food, the company, and just the freedom of being able to express yourself in a way contradictory to what Caucasian-European society expects us to act when we are at the same socioeconomic level as them.