“If white American entitlement meant anything, it meant that no matter how patronizing, unashamed, deliberate, unintentional, poor, rich, rural, urban, ignorant, and destructive white Americans were, black Americans were still encouraged to work for them, write to them, listen to them, talk to them, run from them, emulate them, teach them, dodge them, and ultimately thank them for not being as fucked up as they could be.”
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From “Our Kind of Ridiculous” in How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon (via wheretruthechoes)
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