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I used to work with this older Black woman named Miss Kay. Miss Kay was a praying grandmother. She was a church lady full of pith and vinegar who was quick to put people in their place.
“Don’t let this Bible and prayer cloth fool you,” she used to say in the office lunchroom. “I’ll cut you to the white meat if I have to.”
Everybody believed Miss Kay, and no one went out of their way to try her, but on the few occasions when someone did, we all got a show.
Miss Kay did not play.
It was Miss Kay who gave me a sage piece of advice that I have carried with me ever since.
When we got a new boss and people were rushing to suck up to her in hopes of gaining favor, Miss Kay sucked her teeth one day at lunch and said to a table full of young girls just like me, “Be careful of the asses you kiss. You might fuck around and find out you were kissing the wrong one.”
Y’all, Enrique Tarrio, Harrison Floyd and Trevian Kutti are living out that expression as I type this.
In case you’ve missed the headlines, let me get you caught up real quick.
Enrique Tarrio is an Afro-Cuban man who is a former leader of the Proud Boys.
I would like to pause for a moment to unpack what I just said.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio is an Afro-Cuban man who looks Black, but that did not stop him from joining the Proud Boys, a group that — as noted by the Southern Poverty Law Center — describe themselves as a “Western Chauvinist” fraternal group that spreads messages of “anti-political correctness” and “anti-white guilt.”
The Proud…
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