Black folk have “been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called ‘whiteness’ uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil—black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.” He ended by reminding white America, and millions of black folk, too, that “just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re
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