Is Blackness a Gated Community?

4 ways Black people can lose their “Black card”

Hello friends,

Here’s something we don’t often talk about: the way some Black people are willing to kick other Black people out of the club of Blackness for some perceived infraction of the “Blackness code”, if there is such a thing.

There are some who appoint themselves the arbiter of all that is authentically Black and who want to leave anyone who does…