Black survival means being endlessly obsessed with figuring out the depths to which white folks will fall to maintain a position of dominance. Sometimes Black survival requires that we be the wet nurses and handmaidens for an endless project of white navel-gazing. In order to save our own lives, we have to be brutally honest about what the worst of white folks, as Kiese Laymon calls them, are capable of, even if no one else will.
