It's Fine to Just Cry, Too
by Damon Young on Very Smart Brothas, shared by Damon from on (#57JKD)
I keep coming back to resilience. And how I hate how we consider it to be an essential and inherent and invaluable characteristic of Blackness. I hate it because it's dehumanizing. Being born Black don't make us any more resilient than anyone else. We ain't stronger. We ain't tougher. We've just been given more shit...