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Individualism, belief and family, belief in god, those things are considered whiteness which implies blackness would be crime, being lazy, getting to places late, being unsuccessful, what is the government trying to achieve? rachel: it is moving beyond skin color into characteristics they say represent one group or another. what does that do to black students that hear this and white students? >> battle for the american mind, they are destroying our children because with white children they are ...

About that coming of age story and what that was like, i never had issues with my blackness. i think other people may have had issues with, you know, my parents and their background, their education, playing at duke, there was the perceptions associating with duke back in the early 90s. i was always pretty secure with being black. i had other insecurities that were not related to that. to share that, to talk about that, to discuss with that was like, i was aware of the privilege. i was aware of ...

Happening to you is happening for a reason because without a test, there is no testimony. all of those things become a powerful testimony for me as an adult now. hopefully, for all the kids out there who are being bullied. all the kids out there who are being misunderstood to know that they are not alone and that i went through the same thing and i have come out on the other side. thriving. not just surviving, but truly thriving and truly living my dream. living the american dream. i hope that k...

Collins explores how Black writers were engaging with the idea or concept of posthumanism when Blackness had historically been imagined as inhuman

Social media can offer Black African young people in Australia safe spaces to engage in positive expressions of afro-Blackness.

Holiday, so you know we had to do it big tonight, yall know, that right, right? weve got the recollective orchestra here tonight. its the first time that an all-black orchestra is performing at the hollywood both. give it up, yeah. >> yes, yes, yes. now, this is a global celebration, right, and everybody is invited to the cookout, but listen here, all right. were going to do something real nice tonight. were going to celebrate our black freedom and black people, okay, but, look, we still have to...

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>> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> how do you feel? >> im excited. >> not nervous? >> oh, never nervous. ive done too many shows to be nervous. >> yeah. >> im more excited because its weird for us to -- to -- my favorite type of show is kind of mix and mash of different genres, the roots are such a community group and the fact that tonight we can celebrate, you know, with the country of mi mickey guyton and the hip hop of killer mike and the soul of anthony hamilton and the legacy soul of...

He shows up at this mansion in bel air, baseball cap on backward. like he doesnt even know how to act in this environment. [ laughter ] the black producers and directors and writers were always playing with this kind of subverting expectations of what is blackness. >> the incredible work of "the fresh prince" at its most triumphant is when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. >> vehicle registration, please. >> just a second. but the thing, off...