Does that thought ever cross your mind and cause you to react in a different way or choose something else? This weekend I watched Wanda Sykes comedy show on HBO. She made some jokes about black people stopping themselves from doing certain things (i.e. buying a whole watermelon, Michelle Obama twisting her neck) because white people may be watching them.
It made me think "Do I do that?" Maybe I should because sometimes I say things I should not. LOL
What do you think? What are somethings that make you think "they are watching me"?
google W.E.B DuBois "Double Consciousness"
ReplyDelete(wikipedia) The concept of Du Boisian "double consciousness" has three manifestations. First, the power of white stereotypes on black life and thought (being forced into a context of misrepresentation of one's own people while also having the knowledge of reflexive truth). Second, the racism that excluded black Americans from the mainstream of society, being American or not American. Finally, and most significantly, the internal conflict between being African and American simultaneously. Double consciousness is an awareness of one's self as well as an awareness of how others perceive that person. The danger of double consciousness resides in conforming and/or changing one's identity to that of how others perceive the person.