Black is Bae

The perception of black people as being less intelligent and lazy is what fuels the notion of black excellence. Centuries of oppression and the denigration of the black race has meant that black people need to work twice as hard as white people to get level. So, in an attempt to disprove white minimalistic expectations and negative stereotypes about black people, many black figures in the 60s and 70s coined the phrase ‘Black Excellence’. They were challenging for the first time, the notion that Black people could not excel while also giving the black community a much-needed sense of encouragement.