We don't wanna hear you say "nigga" no more!

Wikipedia: cohosh is a common name in the English language for several loosely related woodland herbs. The name may derive from Algonquian (Eastern Abenaki / Penobscot) '*kkwὰhas', meaning 'rough', possibly describing leaves or compound flowers.

It may refer to:

Black cohosh, Actaea racemosa (Ranunculaceae)

Blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides (Berberidaceae)

Red cohosh, Actaea rubra (Ranunculaceae)

Speaking about the Caribbean here.

The weird dynamic is: people assume YOU think you’re better than them, that you are so fancy in England that you can’t stand to breathe their Black air, that you think that the local Black people are diseased.

Once I explain “oh I came from England where there are constant outbreaks and diseases, I would never want to spread anything, let alone to my own people”, then folks become a little less guarded. And they start dropping their speaky-spokey English and start behaving more naturally. It’s like they treating me like an upper class white lady until I speak. They behaving like i my servants, very deferential, and they resenting me for making them do this. I’m speaking mainly of like of people in the stores etc or the taxi man.

It’s not so much like that in e.g. New York. When I went there, it’s mainly Black peoples and Hispanic people I see masking. And non-masking Black people of any ethnicity (African, Black American, Caribbean) didn’t treat me any type of way for being masked. They didn’t interpret my masking as if I was making a critique about THEM.

So this leads me to conclude: if you are Black wearing a mask when you go to certain “Global South” black countries whose main industry is tourism, the Covid mask can become like a class signifier. It signals that “I am the paying westerner who gets paid in western money, and I can wield my USD like a cudgel, and on top of that I am wearing a mask” which is tantamount to saying “I think all you Blackies in this country STINK. Serve me anyway” 😭😭