And I know, I know I said that clocking in to a job or casting a vote isn’t the same as performing at the Super Bowl or opening a school in the name of Black Liberation or the messaging of laying one’s body against a police car, slowly vanishing into dark water at the end of an expensive music video. But the idea of this Black Excellence that I keep returning to is what a person does when faced with these alternatives. What better living is seen beyond the living currently constructed. Beyond the job, or beyond the emails, or beyond the days where some of us must take walks to shake off the
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