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.
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:
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