Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black

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par Alisha Gaines, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University

A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.”

This wish is different from wanting to cosplay the coolness of Blackness – mimicking style, aping music and parroting vernacular.

This is a presumptive, racially imaginative desire, one that covets not just the rhythm of Black life, but also its blues.

While he doesn’t want to admit it, Canadian-American journalist Sam Forster is one of those white people.

Three…

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