I have a legitimate question.

How do yall keep in touch with your "blackness"? With me being constantly on the road, sometimes I feel so out of touch with the black community.

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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.

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@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.

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Black Twitter, my black family, and my black barbershop

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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?

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I talk to my mom, sister and cousin every week. I’m in touch. Trust.

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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.

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