The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?
The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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