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\u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s funny how now the people making these ads get it?\u201d I say to my best friend, my voice cradling the words \u201cget it\u201d with invisible quotation marks. We\u2019re watching television, something we do together often now, grateful to be in each other\u2019s bubble. \u201cWhat?\u201d she replies, looking up from her phone. \u201cThe models,\u201d I say. \u201cOh, I know,\u201d she says. We\u2019ve been friends for twenty-eight years. She knows what I mean without my having to explain.<\/p>\n

After yet another murder, one salve seemed to be representation. Between announcements of our crumbling democracy and more and more people dying, there were now ads with smiling Black faces. Black girls with crowns of 4c curls. Black women running businesses. Black men walking hand in hand down a suburban street with their Black and biracial daughters. It makes you wonder why Black people had to die in order to see ourselves reflected.<\/p>\n

The Thanksgiving issue of The<\/em> New Yorker<\/em> features a little Black girl with a blue iris flower in her Afro holding an American flag with her sleeves rolled up. I\u2019m caught off guard by the emotion it elicits. It makes me want to frame it. Keep it and one day show my daughter, if I have one. I stand in my mother\u2019s house looking at the cover and wonder: Why does such a quotidian image make me want to cry? It isn\u2019t just that it\u2019s beautiful in the midst of the year\u2019s chaos and pain. It\u2019s because I can\u2019t help wondering what it might have been like for me and my friend to grow up with images such as this one on a magazine like this one. Perhaps then I wouldn\u2019t have been so caught off guard. The image could just have been beautiful, not uncommon.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this what you wanted? That\u2019s what I imagine the executives who made these decisions asking. Yes, but not at this price. I smile at the images, I\u2019m glad for them, but they needn\u2019t have come like this. They should have come before this. Without this. The taste in my mouth is bittersweet. I hate that guilt and corporate desire fuels change, rather than genuine understanding. Because if you understood, it wouldn\u2019t have taken a murder of eight minutes and forty-six seconds to get us here.<\/p>\n

In Pretend It\u2019s A City<\/em>, Fran Lebowitz tells Martin Scorsese that she doesn\u2019t understand people who complain about not seeing themselves in books. \u201cA book is not supposed to be a mirror,\u201d she says, \u201cit\u2019s supposed to be a door.\u201d I understand the sentiment, but I disagree with the argument. It\u2019s the type of sentiment that can only be felt by someone who was unknowingly represented almost everywhere she turned. She didn\u2019t know what she had.<\/p>\n

In a conversation at the New York Public Library, Lebowitz talks with her friend, Toni Morrison, and the two discuss a bygone era of \u201cthe common reader,\u201d people who used to be more open to receiving and entering the imaginary world of books, regardless of whether they spoke to the reader\u2019s own experiences. \u201cMany readers are looking for some replica of their lives,\u201d Morrison says, a point, she notes, Fran herself makes often. But whereas Lebowitz writes in the second person as a resistance to inviting the reader in, Morrison says, \u201cI am the reader of the books I write.\u201d \u201cYour other readers aren\u2019t you,\u201d Lebowitz pushes. And Morrison, laughing, replies, \u201cYes, they are.\u201d She wants to invite the readers in, so that even though her books may not be exactly about their own lives, they represent a version of the world as she saw it. A version that was missing. Her books offer both a door and a mirror.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t read books as a child and demand to know, Where am I? The issue was that few books assigned to me in school ever said, Here you are. As a young person, I grew used to the books chosen in school where Blackness was present only if it was pointed out. The pointing it out was the point: it removed the idea that Blackness could ever be the default. Remember the jolt and pit you felt when you read that<\/em> word in a book that your teacher described as a classic?<\/p>\n

In 1959 James Baldwin wrote, \u201cWhat the mass culture really reflects is the American bewilderment in the face of the world we live in.\u201d If any word describes 2020, it may as well be bewilderment<\/em>. There is the saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t be what you can\u2019t see.\u201d But perhaps more accurate would be to say, \u201cYou notice what you don\u2019t often see.\u201d Walking down the street, a white man I passed yelled that my hair looked like Minnie Riperton\u2019s. He meant it as an insult. I replied, \u201cThank you.\u201d It is no accident our society requires legislation like the CROWN<\/small> Act, which prohibits race-based discrimination based on hair. It is a direct reflection of the lack of representation.<\/p>\n

As tempting as it may be to stew and worry about what might have happened if a segment of America had never woken up, it feels more productive to feel gratitude. Gratitude for the children who will hopefully grow up in a society that offers both mirrors and doors.<\/p>\n

Because when people talk about representation, or reflections, or mirrors, they don\u2019t mean, Replicate my exact experience. They mean, Make it ordinary to see someone who looks like me. Make it as common as it once was to see a friend. Make it so that I don\u2019t even notice.<\/p>\n

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Maura Cheeks is a writer and researcher from Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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