We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

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Africa African Around Because Being Black Blackness Cannot Continually Idea Our Ourselves Proud Race Reactionary Simply Some Walk Walked We Cannot

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