this acceptance or affirmation is active; it is a willing or willingness, in other words, to pay whatever social costs accrue to being black, to inhabiting blackness, to living a black social life under the shadow of social death. This is not an accommodation to the dictates of the antiblack world. The affirmation of blackness, which is to say an affirmation of pathological being, is a refusal to distance oneself from blackness in a valorization of minor differences that bring one closer to health, to life, or to sociality.

Jared Sexton Blackness is a choice. (via howtobeterrell) yes. (via so-treu)



Precisely why I say that our biracial brothers and sisters are family IF THEY CHOOSE TO BE.



Cause they can easily opt out, and we see it all the time. (via so-treu)