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Le Wherefore Face

>>6709479
Not for the first time during such an experience, and not for the last, there happened to be a Black man who walked up to me, and he looked me in my eye, and even as we said not one word to each other, we did that reciprocal Black-man's-nod -- a wordless commiseration to the effect of, "Yeah, I know."

It doesn't matter that I evince cultural aspects which many White people associate with Whiteness -- I am to White America at large "just another black guy."

To quote Malcolm X:

"What do you call a Black man with a Ph.D.? . . . Nigger."

And if ONE gotdayum White person reads this and dares to perfunctorily posit, "#NotAllWhitePeople," I will immediately and forever BLOCK that person from my FaceBook page.

And so, for #RachelDolezal to imagine that she could don my culture and my color -- with the option of being able to return to the safety of Whiteness at her whim -- is fucking insulting as hells. If after all I've shared, you are a White person who cannot manage the extrapolative-empathy to apprehend and appreciate my dudgeon, do keep your inherently aggressive obliviousness to yourself.

#WelcomeAfter