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The 'Can't Read' List in Black Culture
Authored by: Darrell Davis
I just heard something about my black culture. I should have known it earlier. Actually I should have known it when I was a teenager but ... but ...
That My black culture has a "can't read" list of black people.
WOW 😳
A list of black people that can't read.
And it is an embarrassing type of list that black people who can't read don't want anyone to know. They will try to hide it ... or hang around with others who don't, or can't read because they don't have to worry. But get nervous or defensive around black people that can and do read.
Now I understand something in my 60s that was happening all my life.
I have to think about this for a while.
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