The Dangers of Courage Culture and Why Brene Brown Isn’t For Black Folk – Dr. Carey Yazeed

The other day there was an interesting thread on Twitter with Dr. Jenn M. Jackson, a columnist at Teen Vogue, regarding her initial encounter with the writings of Brene Brown and her thoughts on how the author encourages white supremacy by telling white women to be courageous and vulnerable. She stated, “Having courage to finish that swim meet or ask for that big raise isn’t like having the courage to be Black in a country that wants us dead.” She went on to share that the cost of courage for a Black person in America is high, because we are trying to find the courage to speak out against racism, the courage to protest the killings of innocent Black people, and the courage to fight for equality in a country that literally hates our existence. Dr. Jackson went on to talk about Courage Culture and how it is being led by suburban white women and the appeal it has to a lot of minorities, including Black women. We subconsciously want what white women have so we fall into the allure of their

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