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Listen to the Silence of Your Non-Black Friends
We’ve all heard the sayings: “Everyone wants to be Black until it’s time to be Black” or “Everybody wants to be Black, but nobody wants to be Black” …or something along those lines. In times like this, we really get to experience the meaning of these phrases. A few years ago, I made the conscious decision to dissociate myself from the white/non-black people of colour in my life who I noticed were enthusiastically down with the fun parts of black culture but who I would never hear express any sort of opinion over the injustice that is regularly suffered by the black community. You know the ones… the ones who…