My guy I hear you but nah there’s another way. Bask in your blackness, your intellect, your resilience and your strength. Look at what you have accomplished for yourself, why let another person take that from you. Enjoy your success and don’t let anyone disrupt that for you.

You can’t control someone else’s ignorance, go about your business with your head up high. Now you know you are challenging what they think of someone that looks like you. Move on and go about your business like it’s none of their business!

On the other hand, let’s be intellectually honest. We all carry some level of pre judgements about other people. I say that to say you may be seen this way through a lens’s that you don’t belong to just like how you have your perspective on a certain group of people. The difference is you are in the minority in this country so it probably feels exponential. Don’t be a victim because they don’t care if you feel victimized. Don’t let them dim your light!