Being Black in America, from 1619 until this very day, is an ongoing exercise in patience, self-restraint, illusion, faith, hope, and immeasurable strength.
No Black person escapes it. Some think they have, but they’re in denial; they can’t. The choice isn’t entirely theirs. It never will be.
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