A poignant and pointed look at historic and ongoing oppression, Black Like Me demands that we confront our own privileges, prejudices, and deeply-ingrained wounds. Is it possible to redefine a blood-soaked term that was intended to dehumanize a people? How can a word so connected to racialized violence take on such subjectivity both within and outside of Black communities?
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Written by Tresca Weinstein
Her movement morphs as she embodies each persona—victim, witness, survivor, perpetrator, legacy holder—and reacts viscerally to each expression of the word she described on Sunday night as “soaked in pain.”
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