PS: There's an irony there, right? To expect that only your relationships can be boundless while infringing on others' boundaries sounds colonial to me. It's like the manifest destiny of friendship.
"I think a lot of times, people are afraid of the concept of Black people having power to shape their communities and societies because they could very easily do the same things that were done to them."
HZ: [laughs] Exactly. It's funny because I can see a lot of Jess more clearly now than I could, but so much of that is because the boundaries that white folks have made in their relationships have been rooted in harm. And it's the same concept as reverse racism: I think a lot of times, people are afraid of the concept of Black people having power to shape their communities and societies because they could very easily do the same things that were done to them. And I'm not gonna put a judgement on whether that's good or bad, but I think that fear is very real for white people.
PS: I do too, and I'll leave it at that. [laughs]
From Little A Books, Black Boy Out of Time ($15 hardcover, $11 paperback) is out now.
![PS: There's an irony there, right? To expect that only your relationships can be boundless while infringing on others' boundaries sounds colonial to me. It's like the manifest destiny of friendship.
"I think a lot of times, people are afraid of the concept of Black people having power to shape their communities and societies because they could very easily do the same things that were done to them."
HZ: [laughs] Exactly. It's funny because I can see a lot of Jess more clearly now than I could, but so much of that is because the boundaries that white folks have made in their relationships have been rooted in harm. And it's the same concept as reverse racism: I think a lot of times, people are afraid of the concept of Black people having power to shape their communities and societies because they could very easily do the same things that were done to them. And I'm not gonna put a judgement on whether that's good or bad, but I think that fear is very real for white people.
PS: I do too, and I'll leave it at that. [laughs]
From Little A Books, Black Boy Out of Time ($15 hardcover, $11 paperback) is out now.](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/nunRJ3SaHveTpOP8pgcb6PGrfkQ/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2021/04/26/786/n/44344577/c34861c2a51f3345_GettyImages-1219610786/i/PS-There-irony-there-right.jpg "PS: There's an irony there, right? To expect that only your relationships can be boundless while infringing on others' boundaries sounds colonial to me. It's like the manifest destiny of friendship.
\"I think a lot of times, people are afraid of the concept of Black people having power to shape their communities and societies because they could very easily do the same things that were done to them.\"
HZ: [laughs] Exactly. It's funny because I can see a lot of Jess more clearly now than I could, but so much of that is because the boundaries that white folks have made in their relationships have been rooted in harm. And it's the same concept as reverse racism: I think a lot of times, people are afraid of the concept of Black people having power to shape their communities and societies because they could very easily do the same things that were done to them. And I'm not gonna put a judgement on whether that's good or bad, but I think that fear is very real for white people.
PS: I do too, and I'll leave it at that. [laughs]
From Little A Books, Black Boy Out of Time ($15 hardcover, $11 paperback) is out now.")
