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What's it like to be black in America?

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Mar 30, 2021
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(from the pre-stoic archives c. 2015)

Whatever people think they know about 'being black in America', most have very little concept about the black upper class. I don't make much of a deal about it but that's where I live, for what it's worth.

(Christmas Pic 2014, chez moi)

Some days I get mildly annoyed at what people perceive to be 'black culture'. For m…

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