Educated Black professionals live under constant threat that any error damns their whole race.
Evidence
It was always the Negro teacher, the Negro doctor; brittle as I was becoming, I shivered at the slightest pretext. I knew, for instance, that if the physician made a mistake it would be the end of him and of all those who came after him. What could one expect, after all, from a Negro physician? As long as everything went well, he was praised to the skies, but look out, no nonsense, under any conditions I The black physician can never be sure how close he is to disgrace. I tell you, I was walled in: No exception was made for my refined manners, or my knowledge of literature, or my understanding of the quantum theory. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 425
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s focus: the psychological burden placed on ‘externally educated’ Black figures. — connects to: A Black official flaunts authority to compensate for expected racist dismissal.; The educated black professional is held under permanent suspicion of incompetence
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- The educated black professional is held under permanent suspicion of incompetence (similarity 0.93)
- A Black official flaunts authority to compensate for expected racist dismissal. (similarity 0.89)
- Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color (similarity 0.81)