More significantly, most White people have never had to learn about Black people. They’ve never had to adapt to our environment, or to learn our collective social norms (even noting that being Black is not one monolithic thing).
We Black folks expect “no” so much that we is especially surprised when we gets a “yes”. White folks is da opposite. Dey so used to hearing “yes” dat dey act a plum fool when dey hear “no.”
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