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Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue, and clog the lungs.
Possibly a description for the feeling of a micro aggression
You assumed you two were the only black people in her life.
Possibly the thinking behind the micro aggression
What did he just say? Did she really just say that? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth?
The shock from a micro aggression must have profound effects for it to be described in such a descriptive way
Why do you feel comfortable saying this to me?
The questioning of the reasoning adds to the guilt of the person who committed the micro aggression
She wanted her son to go there as well, but because of affirmative action or minority something—she is not sure what they are calling it these days and weren’t they supposed to get rid of it?—her son wasn’t accepted.
The offense committed here cuts pretty deep because it can feel targeted, even if it wasn’t intentional
He has just referred to the boisterous teenagers in Starbucks as niggers.
This is just pure racism
wryly suggesting black people’s anger is marketable.
Anger towards the system for marketing the anger of black people
what you think, one Sunday afternoon, drinking an Arnold Palmer,
Arnold Palmer seen as a drink of the elite
“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
Black people feel hyper visible when put in a field of predominantly white people
evident to all were those people who are enraged they are there at all—graphite against a sharp white background.
Serena and Venus are in the same situation Hurston was in
And her punishment for this moment of manumission is the threatened point penalty resulting in the loss of the match, an $82,500 fine, plus a two-year probationary
Compared to her fellow players, this punishment is extreme, and she got it because of the systemic racism present in tennis
Sjögren’s syndrome
Can help explain her outrage
“black people time” by employing what she perceives to be “black people language.”
Trying to come up with a reasoning for her words
I didn’t know black women could get cancer,
Major misinformation
Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present.
This is how hateful language is created and targeted at black people
