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See, Some Black Man Gets It

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Steve QJ
Jun 25, 2021
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One interesting feature of being a black person who writes about race is that you immediately become a representative. Your opinion isn’t just yours, it’s “black people’s”. The line between calling out the excesses of modern anti-racism and pointing to genuine racial issues is extremely thin.

I think I did a fairly good job of balancing on that line in m…

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