your stereotypes and work FOUR times as hard to be just AS good, yet we fulfilled your silly list of qualifications. What do you think goes through students’ heads when Black Excellence walks through the doors of that classroom for law school, med school, MBA program, Ph.D. program and engineering school (just to name a few)?
What do you think goes through co-workers’ minds those first few weeks on the new job? “How the hell did YOU get here? They were supposed to kill you off a long time ago. How did you survive?!” That fear and trepidation are what we call cognitive dissonance. That’s what happens when a Lion walks into a room full of gazelles. You know why I’m here (shout-out to Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch).
We can’t live in a country where Black Excellence trumps Whyt Mediocrity (pun intended). If we did, what ammo would America have against Us? You can no longer economically castrate us. You can no longer vilify us. You can no longer challenge our intellect. You can no longer impede generational wealth You can no longer emasculate us. You can no longer have a condescending effect on our psyche. You can no longer teach us to hate ourselves. You can no longer bastardize our art. You can no longer hide your lies or your weakness or your insecurities. You can no longer take the ambivalent approach to being US. You can no longer survive off of US.
I haven’t even added the fact that we age gracefully, our physical and sexual prowess far exceeds anyone else’s, have exceptionally dominant genes and possess intrinsic rhythm and soul. Black Excellence is modern, majestic and sophisticated. What I’m essentially getting at is if things were fair this would become the United States of Africa in a heartbeat (maybe two).
With all these in mind, why wouldn’t you be a migraine for black people? A migraine that not only comes at the worst times possible but also comes whenever it pleases: Weddings, birthdays, graduations, in the