But when I think back to the surrealist and unapologetic state-of-blackness report of season 2, much of my love came in the most ordinary explorations around my own culture.
When you talk about Richard Pryor, who joked about and was candid about prostitution, drug use, spousal abuse, arrests, prison, the state of black people in America, Africa, blackness, relationships — one of the things I loved about Richard is that we saw his evolution with our own eyes.
"His familiarity with the Black canon steered him into a potent state of unapologetic Blackness ― one in which the James Baldwins and Young Jeezy's; the bell hookses and the Queen Bey's; the Frantz Fanons and the Futures all occupied hollowed, cherished beautiful space in Jones' identity".
The singular story of the Single Black Mother is repeated so often and has become such a zeitgeist of the African American experience that this belief has become a gospel truth that presents itself as an inherent and immutable state and condition of Blackness.
It is unsurprising, then, why post-racialism is a concept that has been taken up to talk about one's transcendence from blackness into a state of being where his/her blackness is "blurred" or ceases to be altogether.
I grew irritated by the film's montages of pundits saying that their identity was represented by pain, and that this was the reason that Dolezal could not be black, which seemed obliquely to promote the maudlin state of the colloquial definition of blackness.
The show is influenced by artist Kerry James Marshall's use of blackness as a state of visibility.
The degree of blackness represents the percentage of black pixels in the secret image recovered to be black.
I wrote a piece in 2016 stating how in my opinion President Obama was ushering in a new era of blackness in the United States.
Or did Obama expand the boundaries of blackness to include the ability to kill each other with the power of the state?
