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There are things we just don't talk about.

We're not going to be saved by mixed-race people. We're not going to be saved by

interracial relationships. I wanted to prove that we have African blood in our

DNA and that we should celebrate this African blood.

There's this assumption that we're all the same kind of black.

Before leaving home I would check the mirror to make sure my head wasn't peasy.

Okay, so get this.

He said he would tell our son not to wear a hoodie and not to go out late at night.

But now I check to make sure it's peasy enough.

Peezy? I don't even know that one.

Same experiences, same reactions to stuff.

Well guess what?

You just want to be the person who you know can't

figure out who you are. You just want to be the tragic mulatto. We're going to

stoop this out. They'll be walking down the street and this guy would come out of the car and

screamed to me the N-word. I became immune to that.

Coming soon right here in this space, a mini-series from the Stoop, produced especially for radiotopia.

When did you first hear about the Solidarity Nod?

In Saudi Arabia, she found that there were black people already living there.

Black Saudis.

Stories from across the black diaspora that we need to be talking about.

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