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So you, as a black man, have the opportunity to stand up for somebody else.
She doesn't just limit it to black people.
So these black boxes that we live with and take for granted are actually complex things made by other people, and you can understand them.
In such a world, we'd have most reason to wear black socks instead of pink socks, to eat cereal instead of donuts, to live in the city rather than the country, to marry Betty instead of Lolita.
You might decide to be a pink sock-wearing, cereal-loving, country-living banker, and I might decide to be a black sock-wearing, urban, donut-loving artist.
It could not be more black and white.
So the two-ness of this landscape, both black and white ... I decided to do a piece based on shadows and light.
It's also a place where Ruth Williams taught many black actors.
And now, the tradition belongs to these brown and black people, and they use it.
But more importantly, we want to remind people in Charleston, South Carolina, of the black bodies, because when you go to Charleston today, the Confederacy is celebrated, probably more than any other city, and you don't have a sense of blackness at all.
I ran black market stores, I loan sharked, and I sold drugs that were illegally smuggled into the prison.
Prior to going to prison, I didn't know that there were so many brilliant black poets, authors and philosophers, and then I had the great fortune of encountering Malcolm X's autobiography, and it shattered every stereotype I had about myself.
From the start, tar, a black, resinous material, begins to coat the teeth and gums, damaging tooth enamel, and eventually causing decay.
This slide here, the black line shows the measurements that scientists have taken for the last 150 years showing that the Earth's temperature has steadily increased, and you can see in particular that in the last 50 years there's been this dramatic increase of nearly one degree centigrade, or almost two degrees Fahrenheit.
So here is the real life in black.
For so many of us, our devices are black boxes.
Some of them were held by white hands, others by black hands.
The ones held by black hands got substantially smaller bids than the ones held by white hands.
It turns out, holding everything else constant, you are considerably more likely to be executed if you look like the man on the right than the man on the left, and this is in large part because the man on the right looks more prototypically black, more prototypically African-American, and this apparently influences people's decisions over what to do about him.
She names the twins after the camp's commanders to gain their favor, and feeds them with black tea because her milk cannot sustain them.
From afar, they look alien-like, but when you look closer, they're all made out of black garbage bags or Tupperware containers.
And she can tell if you are a boy or a girl, black or white, American or non-American.
We have more black men in prison today than were under slavery in 1850.
So recently, some white guys and some black women swapped Twitter avatars, or pictures online.
They didn't change their content, they kept tweeting the same as usual, but suddenly, the white guys noticed they were getting called the n-word all the time and they were getting the worst kind of online abuse, whereas the black women all of a sudden noticed things got a lot more pleasant for them.
Maybe they exaggerated their style because they thought that they were not considered to be quite civilized, and they transferred that generational attitude or anxiety onto us, the next generation, so much so that when I was growing up, if ever on the television news or radio a report came up about a black person committing some crime — a mugging, a murder, a burglary — we winced along with our parents, because they were letting the side down.
But such ardent watchfulness can lead to anxiety, so much so that years later, when I was investigating why so many young black men were diagnosed with schizophrenia, six times more than they ought to be, I was not surprised to hear the psychiatrist say, "Black people are schooled in paranoia."
He also received a visit from the leader of the black community, a minister, who said, "Mr.
Teszler, I sure hope you're going to hire some black workers for this new plant of yours."
As it happens, the black minister did his job better than the white mayor, but that's neither here or there.
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