![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The proclamation makes a mistake of assuming that black people, like me, were only ever a problem and not a people.īut, first, just what kind of black am I? There have been many such rooms and I end up in more of them, more frequently, the more I inch up the class ladder. But it was said so casually because of the kind of black that I am presumed to be in rooms such as these. Hence, “black people are over.” I did not feel over and I am most certainly black. In a discussion of methods and theories and other such things that comprise a significant part of my job, one of the women-we were all women-said assuredly that we have moved on, past black and white. If pressed to do so at a glance, one might have said that everyone in the room was black. The occasion was a meeting of professors who were working together on a student project. “Black people are over.” That is how it was said to me once. ![]()
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