7 Reasons Why Respectability Politics are BS.

So many of us believed the lie that respectability politics presents us.

As an African American, it was implied to me that because I “spoke so well” and “behaved myself”, I wouldn’t have it as bad as those of my people who “didn’t”. And despite all of that, I face constant microaggressions daily and even had the word “nigger” graffitied on my college bulletin board. As a woman, I was…