My Blackness isn’t up for debate.

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Other Black people assume that because my grammar is correct and I grew up upper-middle class, my Blackness isn’t authentic. It bothers me more than any racist I’ve come up against. It kept me from approaching other Black people in my life for friendships, and no Black man has ever seriously dated me.


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