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Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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It’s not easy being fierce: Dodging the macho Black Masculinity Police

Patent Leather
Published Friday, January 18, 2008

So I’m just going to come right out and say it: Sometimes, straight black men — “macho pops” — can get on my LAST nerves.

I’m at the Saint Louis Galleria because it’s the holidays, and because I’m visiting my grandmother who lives in Saint Louis (SL). I learn that people who live in the fly-over states go to the mall for fun, so I, too, participate. As I walk around I’m accompanied by my diva-cousin, and I’m wearing indigo skinny jeans by Cheap Monday. I walk around in a pair of flat, square-toed leather ankle boots, a black v-neck and a tiny black blazer. All of this is topped off...

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