Challenging harmful narratives

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here and

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because we're here we matter

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so when i think about particularly the

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tradition of black journalists but black

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storytellers

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in general it has been to push back

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against the narratives of white

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supremacy that said that we were an

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inferior and a lesser people

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but when we grab the reigns and we

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control our own stories and we give a

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truer depiction of black life and we are

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able

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to affirm our culture and affirm our

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people

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and to give a much more accurate

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depiction of what it means to be an

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american and what it means to be a black

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american in particular

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