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Canadian-American journalist Sam Forster spent two weeks pretending to be Black to attempt a racial experiment no one asked for. But he is not the first white journalist to try this, and to end up reinforcing stereotypes and failing to address systemic .
“To believe that the richness of Black identity can be understood through a temporary costume trivializes the lifelong trauma of racism. It turns the complexity of Black life into a stunt.”
https://theconversation.com/theres-a-strange-history-of-white-journalists-trying-to-better-understand-the-black-experience-by-becoming-black-231577
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@davidhmccoy @TheConversationUS @blackmastodon The implication being that you can't find out the black experience by, say, talking to black people and then believing what they say.

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