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THE DISPOSABILITY DOCTRINE SERIES: EP 1- There's a Leak in This Old Building.
My great-grandmother hated when I called myself Black.
Not because she was ashamed of my Blackness. Not because she was running from anything. But because she knew something she had carried her whole life, something her mother had carried, and her mother's mother before that.
She knew who we were.
Every time I said "I'm Black," she corrected me. Not harshly. With the quiet, firm certainty of a woman who had survived things I couldn't imagine. She would say: "You are Choctaw. You are more than one thing. Don't let them reduce you."
My family is from Mississippi. We still have land there. My…
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