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Black girls should be allowed to have childhoods and not be perceived as older than their white counterparts.
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00:00There's a lot of research around how black girls are perceived to be older and are given more
00:04responsibility than their white counterpart earlier. And obviously we know the black boys
00:10are read as older. That's why a Tamir Rice can happen. But with black girls, there's this
00:18lack of girlhood that happens as a result of how people perceive you. And that's also part of,
00:26I hope, the work of this generation is that we free black girls to be girls, right? And
00:31that we can have fun and we can be silly and we can not have to help, like, these burdens
00:36are just too, it's too much.

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