How to Protect Your Otherness When You See Another Black Person at a Show

James moved to New York City in his later teenage years and their race came up in a whole different way. I asked, what does it feel like when you see another black person at a show? The response I was looking for was like, oh, you know, like I give them an odd. It's the kind of exciting and say what's up. But other people were like, yo, why are you at my show? Like, oh, wow, I'm supposed to be the only one here. And when they said that, I was like, ooh, I felt that too. There's a lot of like self-hate that I had to work through while making

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