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Dear Black People: Please quit caring about what people say, think, or feel about you.
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Dear Black People: Please quit caring about what people say, think, or feel about you.

Affluent blacks must give up the "they-still-don't-respect-me" trope.

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Ronell Smith
Sep 05, 2020
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The amount of consternation we feel at constantly being judged for things we cannot control is mind-boggling.

This morning I opened Facebook to see a post with the following headline (edited for clarity):

It’s past time people (ostensibly white or non-black people) realize black people can be superior in something more than activities requiring physica…

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