![]() ![]() Jeffers’s alto voice will pitch very close to shouting. Usually, the other Black person will instantly self-correct, with an apology and perhaps a respectful dip of the head.īut if that person who doesn’t use an honorific happens to be white? Mrs. A nudging toward African American cultural lessons: “You know better,” Mrs. ![]() She’ll put on her schoolteacher’s voice, but there is love and warmth rippling under the surface of scolding. Jeffers.” If that transgressing somebody is Black, she’ll remind them of their manners: She is not their friend, and they do not know her. ![]() Somebody will call that Black woman “Trellie” instead of her married name, “Mrs. There is a Black woman’s voice, raised and contemptuous-no longer the harmonious drawl-at a doctor’s office or a store at the new shopping mall where that Black woman lives in Durham, North Carolina-the midsize city where she lives with her husband and three daughters. I’ll tell you what might be in my imagination-or what might be the truth sipping slowly at my blood. I will go back 45 years and come forward to the present. So I will give you a hypothetical history, which I suspect is the history of many actual Black women. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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