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He told me again that he is just a guy, and then he said, that sure, there is a bunch of societal shit that comes with being black, but he is not going to internalize it and build his identity based off of that because that's supposedly "cringe" (he seems to love that word)
He annoyingly continued by saying that he keeps a mental note of how society may see him, but at the same time just sees himself as a guy, and that he will surround himself with people who also see him as just a guy, and not just as his race.
I thought that was delusional nonsense, so I told him that he is running away from his blackness.
I know I seem militant, but I think its justified. If you're black, I feel like its REQUIRED for you to identify based on that. I believe that no amount of you not identifying as black will excuse you from the societal reality of your blackness. And even though he had just acknowledged the societal reality of his blackness, what he said still didn't really sit right with me.
I also told him that if he was going to just surround himself with people who didn't really see him as black, that he was creating a bubble around himself. That he wouldn't be really living in the real world.
He replied "cool story bro" then told me to "go back to black twitter" and left the room.
I felt annoyed. Like, a little kid, a decade younger than me, had just disrespected me to bits.
