If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black, and there's a difference in those terms.

I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

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