To be a Black male on campus means to experience…
Symbolic racism
Double/triple consciousness
John Henryism
Survival assimilation
Only-one-ism
Ambivalent racism
Tokenism
Racialized empathy gap
Institutional and interpersonal gaslighting
Race-based traumatic stress
Panopticism and panopticonian hypervisibility
Racial battle fatigue
Whitesplaining
Racial combat stress reaction
Hypervigilance
Dysconscious racism
Colorblind racism
White men’s fear of losing privilege
White women’s fear of being found culpable
Uncompensated racial labour
Unacknowledged racial hierarchy
Minorities’ internalized racism
The trepidation of whitelash
Being read as intimidating/aggressive
Exhaustion of being a minority
Liberal white betrayal
Lack of same race mentorship
Lack of same race counselors
The bureaucratic compartmentalization of anti-racism
People’s stares and gaze
Having to choose my battles
Tiptoeing around white fragility
Letting some acts of racism slide
A decreasing resilience quotient
Never being able to know if some things were racially motivated
Slowly walking toward the institution’s revolving door
Being a black male on campus.
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