The Myth of “Twice as Good” and the Bastardization of Black Exceptionalism

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I am fully persuaded the moment Vice President Joe Biden and senator Kamala Harris won the 2020 presidential election will become one of those pivotal historical moments that people reminiscently reduce to an exercise in historical logistics. Discussions about the announcement will begin with a very vanilla anecdote as an individual’s state, “I remember where I…