Greyboy Author Cole Brown on Identity and Finding Blackness in a White World

PS: No, it's not.

CB: And to the extent that I was effective in capturing it, what I have been pleased to see is messages that I've gotten since the book has released of people saying, "Wow Cole, I didn't think about how when I was making fun of that Black girl in class, what I was really saying about how I view Black women." Or, "I didn't even think about how when I was calling you 'not really Black,' what I was really saying about how I view Black people and Black identity." And again, it was not the intention, but I could not be happier with that result: causing people of all stripes — but particularly white people, frankly — to reflect seriously on the way we move in these same spaces.