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1. El Norte Recuerda 🇵🇷 (artistmarciax@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2019 05:42:07 EDT El Norte Recuerda 🇵🇷

   "this leaves many white people open to a gross misunderstanding. Most of our encounters with black people are on “white turf” where black people present not as they are, but as they know we wish them to be – quiet, polite, humble, generous and always smiling. Paradoxically, most of our encounters with black people from a distance – through media or external observation – are of black people who are loud, assertive, self-possessed, proud and sometimes angry. "+

   1. El Norte Recuerda 🇵🇷 (artistmarciax@playvicious.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2019 05:43:13 EDT El Norte Recuerda 🇵🇷

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      "What we don’t understand is many of those black people are the same people. It never occurs to us that black people are as emotionally complex as white people.... "+