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Both Luann and Ramona immediately formed the Race-Denial Voltron, questioning why Eboni had to bring race into it. The miscommunication began to frustrate Eboni so she raised her voice.

Then this happened:

“Why are you getting so angry?” said Luann.

“Oh, now I’m the angry Black woman,” Eboni replied.

“I’m not going there,” said Luann. “You’re an angry woman right now. I never referred to your color, nor would I.”

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Yikes. This was like a targeted language word generator of microaggressions! If it wasn’t the pushback to the uppity Black woman who dared to note her higher education, it was the “angry” label that far too many Black women encounter when we express any sort of pushback.

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Whew, chillay.

In a move that I wish she didn’t have to do but completely understand (especially as a writer at a Black publication that often unapologetically calls out wypipo), Eboni confirmed on her Instagram page that she is taking a break from social media for a couple of weeks.

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In an IGTV video, she noted that she was “coming from a really vulnerable place” during that heated conversation and that she was “[pulling] a Naomi Osaka...to protect my peace.”

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Word.