Blackness on Campus
Blackness On Campus Recently, I attended a black student union meeting at my PWI's campus. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Privileged black people seem to have a disconnect when it comes to issues of race. They buy into their own dehumanization and believe that something about them is innately criminal so acting 'non threatening' or not 'loud' is the best course of action. But I ask, where is the humanity in that? Where is the freedom in being accommodating or servile? Words thrown around by them sounded no different than the words white people use as arguments for why black bodies deserve to be killed. Their arguments were that the actions of black people result in what happens to them, not the bias against their bodies as oppose to white people who are not disproportionately murdered by the police or incarcerated. Illogical. The 'model minority' complex has to go. But I understand, they are from a different background tha...