What does Black excellence mean to me?
It is--
Black excellence means--
To balance what you have been having a hard time
answering this question.
To me, Black excellence is being unapologetically Black.
Hmm.
It's just who we are.
It means pushing through so many of the obstacles
that we often face.
It means making the ancestors proud.
It motivates and encourages others that are watching.
It's setting a standard.
It's becoming a representation.
To me, Black excellence is just our authenticity.
It is our living.
Moments of Black excellence in the last year,
it's really hard to cherry pick one moment.
Black people mobilized in 2020.
We were out.
Kamala Harris is certainly an example of that.
Kamala Harris is everything I would like to be,
including good-looking in a power suit.
Just seeing someone that looks like me in that position
lets me know that all things are possible.
And there are no Black feelings.
Naomi Osaka and her activism during the US open.
Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams,
and what she was able to accomplish,
not just in Georgia, but really in the nation of this election.
There's not enough words that could
be said about Cicely Tyson.
That loss was profound.
Amanda Gorman.
Watching Amanda Gorman up there reading her poems during all
this stuff that's going on in the world,
and having poise and confidence, that's Black excellence.
Let's shout out the women's rumble winner
Bianca Belair who is a sister.
She is awesome, awesome.
We're not going to let these conversations just get
swept under the rug and die.
And I think that's also part of Black excellence.
We can stand together like no other.