Avis Hatcher-Puzzo
2 min readJul 23, 2021

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Truth be told, it’s really none of your business to "mind" or not. My point, (and I’m not being b*tchy or disrespectful and I hate that I have to even say THAT just to be honest but) Malcolm X and all the other black activists, scholars and theorists are writing to, about and for the black community. It’s not about or FOR you, which is why most black people get so twisted when white elites or incredibly uninformed guilt-ridden progressives, HAPPEN UP on a piece of black scholarship and decide they should have a say about it, NOT asking, or doing due diligence in researching or bothering to truly understand what the information is or where it's coming from (the history and importance it has). Nervous savior-driven whites read it, only see "white people bad" and then go off on some liberal emotional defense when and I repeat IT WAS NEVER ABOUT YOU. So the black people writing on Reddit or Twitter, none of your business!! Why are white people so frightened, threatened and prying when it comes to black people speaking about their experiences? You don’t do this to any other group in America! And quite frankly, what is it about you that you just CAN NOT BE THE BAD GUY? Just be wrong and imperfect, like human beings are, and walk away. As much as you malign men, specifically black men as monsters, you should be able to take your own reflective condemnation. This is the key problem with DiAngelo in that she like soooooooooo many elite white-privileged highly educated BORED women, she inserts herself into an issue that is personally driven and like Oprah, uses that “pain” to capitalize and distort information and history to redirect it to an audience that doesn’t get it and shouldn’t be in it in the first place. Black scholarship and communal dialogues are not for sale or for your white gaze, it’s like a grown man watching a 15 year old girl in the shower then holding workshops for other men to explain “what that really means”….shame on you.

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Avis Hatcher-Puzzo

dance/theater professor @HBCU, born, raised in elitist Connecticut, married almost 2 decades, GenXer, but seriously someone has to stop these people