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Ever have an interaction with someone that you wish you could do over knowing now what you didn’t know then? I will never forget, back in 2015, I was heading to work catching the 7 train from Queens (New York) to Manhattan. The train was always packed in the morning. I remember stepping onto it, and there was a woman in front of me with a guitar strapped to her back. The lady turned around then asked me to step onto another train car as to prevent her guitar from being squished. I’m like “sure,” walked to the next train car, listening to music. Then, as if realizing I was hit with a Jedi Mind trick, I looked up from my phone thinking, “Wait a fucking minute,” just as the door closed. And that woman that asked me to go to another train car? Yes, she was (taps palm). My mutant, the way I want to do that shit over and reply to her with, “no.” All lowercase. Very small period. Ugh, it haunts me. Why am I mentioning this moment? You’ll see. Now, let’s get back to Storm. Incase you missed it, Storm was enjoying her date on Arakko with bae candidate Craig (Marshall) of NASA. The Black girl joy & soft moment gets interrupted, rudely, by a telepathic message with way too much bass in his voice/thought from Charles Xavier. Storm leaves her date to meet Xavier, but she ain’t about to be kee-kee’ing, ha-ha’ing, or chit chat’ing with this man. Storm is coming to tell Xavier about his fucking self. See, first of all, Xavier talking to Storm like it’s 1975, and she’s a rookie on the X-M…
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Omar Holmon
Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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