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bravenak

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1. How could a white person be able to discuss being black anyway?

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:13 AM

Jun 2016

One would presumably need to experience being black to discuss being black unless one had educated themselves through various means on the black experience.

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A frank discussion of being Black/African American in the USA in the year 2016. [View all] a kennedy Jun 2016 OP

How could a white person be able to discuss being black anyway? bravenak Jun 2016 #1

Ok, now what else??? eom a kennedy Jun 2016 #2

That's what I wanna know bravenak Jun 2016 #3

Well, they had so much power in the sixties, the Blank Panther Party a kennedy Jun 2016 #4

They were targeted and driven underground bravenak Jun 2016 #5

Thanks.....eom a kennedy Jun 2016 #6

Huh? I'm unclear as to what you're actually trying to say here. cali Jun 2016 #7

Just asking the African Americans here how their lives REALLY are...... a kennedy Jun 2016 #8