>Excellence has been the true foundation of our human history (as this graphic speaks to, clearly). Black Excellence has been normalized as a rarity and not the norm itself. So, throughout time, whiteness has systematically erased or kept hidden from view, the list on the left, so that it can ensure we are shocked and surprised when a Black person receives an accolade, let alone “speaks well”.

>Fun fact #2: Beethoven was Black. Fun fact #3: The SAT was created by a eugenicist named Carl Brigham, who firmly believed that such a test would reveal the natural intellectual ability of white people. These are the things allyship requires us to learn about and understand, and then see their impacts as violent and trauma-inducing. And we have to look inside ourselves to see where our learned biases and racist ideas have prevented us from asking the right questions or self educating to know the real truth about our world.

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There are people who don't know that Indian Business Machines is a cult?