At the very least, Blackness is normalized for me. I quite comfortably see the world through a lens of Black identity.

The modern era is defined by the embeddedness and reliance on enslavement; that there is not an industry in the US that is not touched by dollars from enslavement; that there is not a university or educational system that was not touched by dollars from enslavement; that there is not generational wealth that is untouched by enslavement dollars.