Anon Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People (verysmartbrothas.theroot.com)
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'I’m not quite sure where I first heard “straight black men are the white people of black people.” I know I read a version of it recently in Saki Benibo’s “The 4:44 Effect.” Mela Machinko tweeted, “Cishet black men are the white people of black people” over a year ago and apparently received so much criticism for it that she temporarily locked her account. '
'The effects of racism—metaphysical and literal—and the existential dread and dangers felt when existing while black are not exclusive to black men and boys. '
'It feels counterintuitive to suggest that straight black men as a whole possess any sort of privilege—particularly the type of privilege created for and protected by whiteness. '
'Making things worse is that black women and girls are also black people in America—a fact we seem to forget whenever possessing a bad memory is convenient. '
'Intraracially, however, our relationship to and with black women is not unlike whiteness’s relationship to us. '
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