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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Spoken like someone who has never spent a considerable amount of time in the minority.
Let me tell you something as the only black guy in the room throughout school and my career almost ALL the time. Constant micro-aggressions are fucking exhausting. Whoever gave them that name did the concept a real disservice. When I went to school, in a 3 hour span, I may have heard:
"What part of the ghetto did you grow up in?"
"Can I touch your hair?" [Back when I had it, and no, it isn't just women who experience this.]
"Wow, how did you get in to such a good school?"
"Excuse me, sir, are you in the right place?" for the 40th day in a rowfrom a security guard as white person after white person flies by.
"Are you a member of this gym?"
"Wow. A platinum card. Can I see your ID?" while no one else gets asked for ID.
All micro-aggressions. And that is the absolute smallest slice of examples I can cut. They might seem small, but let me tell you something, they make you want to commit murder after hearing them day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year your entire fucking life.
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Do me a favor everyone (not just TM).
There are 100 of these things I can identify that drive me batty when I see them happen. But I'm sure there are some I do unconsciously. Everyone feel free to clobber me when I do one of these.
But, TM, what kind of fool pays for a platinum card?
