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Black Studies
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I owe endless gratitude to my ancestors whose names I'll never know—and to my as-yet-unconceived children whose names I don't yet know: I already love you, though I've never met you; I already miss you, though I haven't left you; I don't even know you, but I can't forget you.
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What is the black shadow? It's the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being inferior as black people. It is our internalization of the white man's lie that blacks are inferior to whites -- the very lie that was the foundation of our ancestors' enslavement. The black shadow is more than simply internalized racism; it's also our complex feelings of fear and despair about being black, and consequently our longing to be less black.
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― Facing the Black Shadow
― Facing the Black Shadow
