Assimilated Black professionals resent racism mainly when it mistakes them for ordinary Blacks

Evidence

Obama’s antiracist litany continued in his critical revelation of the “extraordinary Negro” complex. “We, the half-breeds and the college-degreed, … [are] never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we’re bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives—although that’s what we tell ourselves—but because [we] … have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger. Don’t you know who I am? I’m an individual!” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1195

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core concern: how the exceptional-individual stance is a species of assimilationism — even antiracist-adjacent Blacks deploy it.