Columnist Justice B. Hill brings us the story of Terrance Reynolds, a young Black American, who defies expectations by embracing global travel and citizenship, while challenging traditional notions of where he can call home.
Stopping at the front desk, he asked someone behind the counter: “What do you have for me?”In some ways, it made Terrance, then 20, a unicorn or, perhaps, a black rhino —the rarest of the rare: a youthful Black man who wanted to trot the globe. Such a man is rarer still when his roots were planted here, because most males who look like him have more pedestrian aspirations.
The months he spent there opened his eyes to the world. He reached out and tried to put his hands around global citizenship. Japan and Southeast Asia are acquainted with Black culture. From hip-hop to sneakers, Blackness, a cultural currency of sorts, brings instant cool, he said. It gives him “cultural cache.”
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