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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Du Bois’s life and work were an inseparable mixture of scholarship, protest activity, and polemics. All of his efforts were geared toward gaining equal treatment for black people in a world dominated by whites and toward marshaling and presenting evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority.,Synopsis: “Netflix’s new series ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ is based on the best-selling book series, that follows the friendship and adventures of Kristy Thomas, Mary-Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, and Dawn Schafer as the middle-schoolers start their babysitting business in the town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut.”,However, at some point in this country’s history, it became Black America’s responsibility, through the Black intellectual, to articulate whiteness’s nuances, an exercise benefiting whiteness more than Blackness.,A Black voice never exists in isolation. Each sentence we write today contributes to a long legacy of truth tellers: W.E.B Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Ida B.Wells, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King Jr.. The words we write exist next to whiteness’s willingness to consume them.,The relationship between knowledge, acceptability, and infrastructure categorizes the Black voice. The Black voice remains within an existential quandary, wrestling allegiance between approved messages or truth telling, both sometimes feeling mutually exclusive.,A writer and thinker like Du Bois can’t ignore race in his work when, despite speaking several languages, holding a doctorate from Harvard University, and writing his impressive study, The Philadelphia Negro, the University of Pennsylvania refused to offer him a faculty position.,Because of the avalanche, communicating race’s nature contains questionable beneficiaries, inevitably placing society at an impasse. Writing pieces on the state of Black America pushes the American conversation forward, highlighting and celebrating this nation’s areas of improvement. On the contrary, though, our voices function as caplets for whiteness to consume, feeding the United States an herbal remedy to heal its most ancient disease.,I’m not a video editor, but I’m pretty sure I brutally slayed the M1 MacBook Air I just bought (8 GB RAM and a 512 gigabyte SSD, in case you were wondering) in less than a day of use.,Black intellectuals who become champions of African-American issues risk being accused of an inability to see beyond their own particular interests, creating a schism between an activist and an intellectual, allowing for some ideas to be marginalized by society while others deemed beneficial.,Our medicine heals the beds of unearthed racism that may arise from ignorance. White readers ought to hear voices who challenge their idealistic understanding of America. Otherwise, they are bound to remain unenlightened, doomed to repeat past mistakes, falling ill to the same sickness as their ancestors.,Our inability to help our people address white supremacy’s psychological damage without whiteness listening to the conversation is the primary characteristic of the racial avalanche.,Abandoning Blackness means being absorbed by the snow, swallowed by the chilling white wave. The racial avalanche’s primary focus is consumption through communication methods, using art and media to get the job done.,Within that same paradigm, a Black intellectual espousing conservative values is often regarded as anti-Black, a sellout, or a traitor to their race. As President-elect Joe Biden said in an interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, “If you have a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”,Americans’s willingness to hear Black perspectives doesn’t translate to progressive policy, only tokenized embodiments of approved rhetoric. By any measure, people of African descent remain disproportionately clustered at the bottom of the social hierarchy, regardless of the number of Black men and women we have speaking on behalf of the disenfranchised.,Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is the most popular African-American author today, gaining wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. He has published three non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics. In 2015 he received a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019.