Deante’ Kyle
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You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's nice when you walk over here.
It don't feel like, you know what I'm saying?
Regardless of what the neighbors might be having going on.
You know what I mean?
It ain't going on in here.
So I think the thing is, is that we rush to go in other places.
We don't understand, like, the profound impact that that's going to have on your kids.
Where, you know, W.E.B.
Du Bois talks about a double consciousness.
I think it, like, it plays a bigger part when you don't grow up around people that look like you because now you're, like, confused on who you are, why you're being treated differently.
But you're a child, so you really can't escape it.
You really don't have no choice but to, like, endure it
And you either assimilate or you like deviate from it completely.
And yeah, man, you see that a lot with like kids that go to HBCUs.
They get radical because they never been around it.
I can cause this with respect every day of the week.