The short answer is yes.
Yes, after a year in which so many of our Black brothers and sisters were slain, I am willing to bet that a great number of Black Americans still hold fast to the idea of respectability—the notion that if you ‘act right’, you can avoid the discrimination and injustice that befalls so many of us.
The problem that most people have with respectability politics is…
Read the rest of my article at Las Morenas de España here, here, or here.