Black excellence is a scam: respectability politics, classism and hustle culture in Black Culture

what is black excellence? black excellence is a scam. the cost of black excellence is expensive. It takes more than it gives and leaves so many out. black excellence is wonderful in theory, but there is a problem when it excludes specific types of Blackness. hustle culture is not for Black women, but we seem to working ourselves to the bone to achieve this greatness. black excellence is an exhausting, draining, expensive… let’s talk about it.

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