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Saturday, September 24, 2011

"With so many ways of performing blackness, there is now no consensus about what it is or should be."

Writes Orlando Patterson:
One of his goals, Touré writes in “Who’s Afraid of Post-­Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now,” is “to attack and destroy the idea that there is a correct or legitimate way of doing blackness.” Post-blackness has no patience with “self-appointed identity cops” and their “cultural bullying.”
Here's Touré describing skydiving, which he was told black people don't do.

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