
Each of these moments of signifying took on a different sort of political resonance, calling attention to the presence of Blackness, but also quite deliberately affirming white supremacy’s greatest fear — that the presence of Black people does make a difference; that, when Black people enter and hold space, things will not be the same as they were before, whether on Twitter, in elite tennis, in Division I gymnastics, in the NFL, or anywhere else Blackness has either been excluded or regulated.