chakita1
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Perfectionism is a blessing and curse.
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rp @moemotivate: White supremacy limits your growth & disconnects u from ur humanity & that of others.
This is why I say all the time that white supremacy harms white folks too, y’all just reap too many “benefits” from it to want to do anything about it.
But this pursuit of perfectionism doesn’t just harm the person internalizing it. Your internalized perfectionism is perpetuated on us.
Perfectionism is the oppressive pressure & dehumanizing expectations placed on Black folks, especially Black women to police & control Blackness to assimilate & measure up to Eurocentric standards.
We’re expected to be experts at the beginning & never is there any room or grace for us to learn & grow in our humanness.
Not everything is a mistake, sometimes it’s just our humanness being lived out in a world that dehumanizes us & expects perfection from us.
Black humanness comes w/death sentences.
While white folks have the benefit of the doubt bc of white supremacy we have no such thing.
In fact the opposite is true of us.
We are expected to do everything without fail & when we don’t, our humanness is used as further justification for the oppression & abuse we experience.
Perfectionism strips us of our humanity & bc you’ve internalized perfectionism too, it feels normal & socially acceptable to demand it from us.
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#diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Need Approval
Perfectionism is a blessing and curse.
-
rp @moemotivate: White supremacy limits your growth & disconnects u from ur humanity & that of others.
This is why I say all the time that white supremacy harms white folks too, y’all just reap too many “benefits” from it to want to do anything about it.
But this pursuit of perfectionism doesn’t just harm the person internalizing it. Your internalized perfectionism is perpetuated on us.
Perfectionism is the oppressive pressure & dehumanizing expectations placed on Black folks, especially Black women to police & control Blackness to assimilate & measure up to Eurocentric standards.
We’re expected to be experts at the beginning & never is there any room or grace for us to learn & grow in our humanness.
Not everything is a mistake, sometimes it’s just our humanness being lived out in a world that dehumanizes us & expects perfection from us.
Black humanness comes w/death sentences.
While white folks have the benefit of the doubt bc of white supremacy we have no such thing.
In fact the opposite is true of us.
We are expected to do everything without fail & when we don’t, our humanness is used as further justification for the oppression & abuse we experience.
Perfectionism strips us of our humanity & bc you’ve internalized perfectionism too, it feels normal & socially acceptable to demand it from us.
.
.
.
#diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems