Kimberly Manning
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586 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2020
last heard Sep 2020
Kimberly Manning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Actually, as I listened to that story, I thought about
Times when I was growing up, I remember I got bused to this magnet school in middle school.
And that was my first time ever being around anybody that wasn't black.
My whole neighborhood was black and Mexican.
And this magnet school, I'm meeting like kids who are like white and Asian and Jewish and who have means and all this stuff.
And I had a slumber party.
And I remember really being troubled about that.
co-mingling my friends, you know, because, you know, my neighborhood was pop-locking, double-dutching, and break-dancing, and my school was, you know, none of that.
And, you know, I think that I had drunk the Kool-Aid of thinking that the things that were black weren't as good, and I recall what I did, which I'm not proud of, which is brought these friends
from my school to my house and didn't invite any of my friends from my neighborhood to my party to keep us separated because I didn't know how to do both.
I didn't want my friends from my neighborhood to tease me for code switching.
And I didn't want my friends from school to understand why I was being air quotes ghetto.
And now that's why I'm so excited about where we are now, you know, because I ain't doing none of that anymore.
You're going to get all this black girl magic.
You're going to get Inglewood.
You're going to get Tuskegee, Meharry.
You're going to get Wakanda.
Yeah, you're going to get all of that.
It took me all this time to figure out that that's what people want anyway.
That was a
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