Navigating Microaggressions as a Black Child: A Personal Journey

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Oh that's the term I've never heard of that before I thought you gotta come on Get with the decades here Blurred was even in the eighties was somewhat of a rarity and it was sort of a little weird and so forth So here you are a decade before that and you're telling me you're the only one or 2 black kids people are touching your hair and all types of other microaggressions and so forth Was it sort of weird going through that So as a kid because the hair touching was mostly elementary school it was just Keep in mind my father was a civil rights person Now there are 2 kinds There I've been into only 2 categories One is the angry black man stereotype So that's with the fist in the hair you know the black panther iconography And then there's the Martin Luther King you know love your neighbor you know Jesus you know philosophically New Testament love your neighbor So my father was these people don't know any better These vicious racists that are screaming epithets or coming under the hoses from the police sheriffs in the South They don't know any better And so any time someone came to me and asked me questions touched my hair I viewed it as an act of diplomacy to talk them through it And then that's one fewer people in the world who one day would take some act of violence or whatever out of fear simply born of ignorance