All of the failures of the Negro business are not due to troubles from without. The Negro in business becomes popular in RESTRICTED circles, and men of less magnetism grow jealous of his inroads...The Negro in business too easily becomes a social lion...He so far outdistances his competitors in society, that they often set to work, in childlike fashion, to bring him down to their level. ~Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro If you can feel proud of the ACCOMPLISHMENTS of unrelated fictive kin, then you can also feel ashamed of the FAILURES of unrelated fictive kin...If you exist in an environment that generates stigmatizing shaming based on IDENTITY characteristics and NOT behavior, then the failures, or perceived failures,or shortcomings of unrelated fictive kin can create shame... ~Melissa Harris Perry I really want the conversation to be a lot more honest. Let us deal with the bad bits and the good bits, but tell the truth about things. ~Auma Obama Stuff doesnt just happen. Stuff gets done BY people, TO people...Divide and conquer is working...To be a person of color in this country is to always have to know what the other guy thinks; it is to always have to know what other people think about you because if you dont-- if you for one minute forget what other people might think about you--your life is in danger...At some point, we better worry about privilege, not just cause of what it does to the ones WITHOUT it, but what it does to us--what it turns US into... ~Tim Wise
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