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Anything Black Gets Destroyed

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If I Ain't Readin'
4 min readNov 22, 2022
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When you look up the definitions of white and black, the terms are a bit deceiving. White is described as pure. Black is equated to evil and darkness. However, reality has shown us that sometimes white people just don’t like Black people doing something positive and earning a living. Just like they don’t like young Black girls bidding on 80k earrings.

I’m going to show you a few examples of times where Black Excellence was trolled upon and wiped out, leaving massive psychological damage in its wake.

Black Wall Street

Let’s start with the obvious and well-known case of Black Wall Street. Known as one of the worst race riots in history. This was one of the wealthiest Black areas in America and unfortunately, it is a forgotten history.

So forgotten, that when people viewed an episode touching on it in “Lovecraft Country” viewers thought it was fiction:

I won’t go into too much of a history lesson here, but the founder of what we now call Black Wall…

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If I Ain't Readin'
If I Ain't Readin'

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Erica is an essayist and poet who enjoys reading, creating content, and helping others find their purpose too. Above all, she loves to read🖤

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