The Black neighbor doesn't see kin when she sees me. For her, she's found a way of life, in Racine, Wisconsin, conducive to her survival in a predominately white space. She's seen what happens to Blacks who refuse to be complicit. However, this neighbor, like so many, unfortunately who find themselves in similar situations, is more complicit in more ways than one. And is there an exchange of money? There usually is when the conditions are such that it's beneficial for whites to reproduce slavery.
I must admit, when I hear her below, when I hear her readying herself to stay up harassing me, with the aim of depriving me of sleep so I'll run off sooner rather than later" It's the saddest manifestation of white supremacy! She learned to be that way! It benefited her once, and she's stuck to it. Most of the whites in these predominately white complexes, it seems, are closer to MAGA and acknowledge her as "nice" Black, given her willingness "bring me down a peg or two" because I'm something from a nightmare!
I can't exist here no more than this neighbor below be herself, if she has a self, a soul, left. The whites themselves can't be, unless to be, is to be aligned with tyranny and a racial hierarchical structure that won't tolerate the expression of the Black lived experience in America.
And try and explain this to an oncologist, looking at numbers" How? How do I explain the numbers for her without using those numbers? Just words? Just my lived experience? Just history?
As an old civil rights and revolutionary girl, I don't like this scenario.
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