So that's a lot of times why we're so exhausted because, you know, we're we're performing most of the time. So this double consciousness leads to internalized oppression. So masking your true emotions because you're constantly having to pick up and put down different masks and adopt different personas in order to navigate racial systems, right? So you may suppress your anger with one person to avoid being stereotyped as, let's say, the angry black woman, right? But you may not check somebody because you're trying to avoid that. Right? So this is double consciousness. You really feel one thing authentically that you want to say or do, but you're not doing it because of a survival strategy.

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