Deante’ Kyle

I also think that in our community, there is a lot of anti-blackness that is pushed onto us that we just subconsciously accept and then later have to undo.

But I don't think that we have, like, anti-black practices within the black community.

I think a lot of it is stuff we're subjected to.

So in other communities, it's just harder for me because they have anti-black practices, like...

They're raised up to like, we're taught more so to hate ourselves.

They're taught to hate us without any interaction, without any experience in the community.

These are things to keep us susceptible or force us to assimilate.

Whereas for them, it's like, this is their assimilation tool, too, to stay away from us so they can climb the ladder in the other direction.

And I think that once you've been indoctrinated in something like that,

Education and experience can definitely turn it, but it just kind of seems like we're always let down by it.

I don't.

Yeah, bad hair, good hair is crazy.

Yeah.

It's a crazy talk.

They do because it's a self-esteem thing.

It's a self-esteem thing.

And a powerful movement has to be, like, people who have a high esteem of self.

Right.

Because that esteem, like, if I love myself, I'm going to love everyone, like, my neighbor.

I'm going to love my people.