In continuation of the theme "We Suck", I was a-wondering... am I supposed to be excited that Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello are coming to L-ville? I don't necessarily dislike these artists, but I just don't get all the hub-bub.
And, again, under the banner of "We Suck", Tavis Smiley is getting on my nerves. His preachy self-righteousness is boring me just a bit.
Felicia, honestly, I am beginning to wonder if there really are just "Black" issues anymore? What are these things that are supposed to unite us --- what are the cores of Black Group Think? We have some limited vein of a common West African ancestry and a large common history of disparate and violent treatment in America due to the way the majority has racially categorized us ---- but I am beginning to think that is where it ends.
I had a recent excursion into Sheppard Square to visit some family that I haven't seen in a while. It was about 7pm on a Thursday, as I was driving down Clay Street from Broadway...and you can just use your Prosecutorial imagaination to figure out what I was seeing. Desperation, madness and nihilism on each side of the street. And all I could think was "These are supposed to be MY PEOPLE, but I don't have anything in common with them. Some of us look similar and most of us were born and raised in the KY and all of us check the 'Black/African-American' box on the census --- but other than that...nothing." I am not them and they sure as hell are not me. But Tavis says I am supposed to give a damn and do something about situations like Sheppard Square in the name of MY PEOPLE ---however, I don't and, most likely, I won't.
Yes, yes, I know...I am an uppity no-good Black Woman with not an ounce of racial fidelity. But that's not totally true. I am very faithful to Barack and Michelle, Condoleeza, Dr. Cornel West, Gwen Ifil, Denzel, Jill Scott, Colin Powell, Mark Morial, Nikki Giovanni, John McWhorter and other good-thinking, level headed Black people. But my fidelity is strained with the likes of that Jack-Ass Vick, 50-Cent, PacMan Jones, Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim, every idiot who has made L-ville's murder rate skyrocket in 2007 and every Black Church minister who refuses to rebuke the evil of domestic violence -- even when one of their own is a victim and damn near killed by it.
My Black-folk fidelity is selective based on who is on the receiving end of my faith.
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In continuation of the theme "We Suck", I was a-wondering... am I supposed to be excited that Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello are coming to L-ville? I don't necessarily dislike these artists, but I just don't get all the hub-bub.
And, again, under the banner of "We Suck", Tavis Smiley is getting on my nerves. His preachy self-righteousness is boring me just a bit.
Felicia, honestly, I am beginning to wonder if there really are just "Black" issues anymore? What are these things that are supposed to unite us --- what are the cores of Black Group Think? We have some limited vein of a common West African ancestry and a large common history of disparate and violent treatment in America due to the way the majority has racially categorized us ---- but I am beginning to think that is where it ends.
I had a recent excursion into Sheppard Square to visit some family that I haven't seen in a while. It was about 7pm on a Thursday, as I was driving down Clay Street from Broadway...and you can just use your Prosecutorial imagaination to figure out what I was seeing. Desperation, madness and nihilism on each side of the street. And all I could think was "These are supposed to be MY PEOPLE, but I don't have anything in common with them. Some of us look similar and most of us were born and raised in the KY and all of us check the 'Black/African-American' box on the census --- but other than that...nothing." I am not them and they sure as hell are not me. But Tavis says I am supposed to give a damn and do something about situations like Sheppard Square in the name of MY PEOPLE ---however, I don't and, most likely, I won't.
Yes, yes, I know...I am an uppity no-good Black Woman with not an ounce of racial fidelity. But that's not totally true. I am very faithful to Barack and Michelle, Condoleeza, Dr. Cornel West, Gwen Ifil, Denzel, Jill Scott, Colin Powell, Mark Morial, Nikki Giovanni, John McWhorter and other good-thinking, level headed Black people. But my fidelity is strained with the likes of that Jack-Ass Vick, 50-Cent, PacMan Jones, Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim, every idiot who has made L-ville's murder rate skyrocket in 2007 and every Black Church minister who refuses to rebuke the evil of domestic violence -- even when one of their own is a victim and damn near killed by it.
My Black-folk fidelity is selective based on who is on the receiving end of my faith.
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