I can never come up with good subjects
Jul. 26th, 2003 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beandelphikiBefore I forget...
In this recent entry of mine,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sardonic_girl commented with a bunch of questions I thought were interesting to ponder, so I asked for her permission to repost them.
For example, how many of our melanin-challenged friends here will see a black comedy but not a black drama? How many of us know much about black culture outside of the shit pandered by the media? Like Dan said, he was surprised when he found out that Black people had different hair types. Most white people are. Yet we, as black people must not only understand our history to be seen as real, we must know your history in order to survive (this is called double-consciousness.) On a more personal note, how many of you are kinda surprised deep down when you hear an intelligent person of color? Do you think, oh s/he's so articulate (even though there's no reason we shouldn't be)? Do you write off our anger as just 'typical Black anger'? Do you realize that most Black people are in fact suburban (60% live in the suburbs and are middle class.) Basically, do you assume that you are being progressive just because you have a couple of nice thoughts about the 'other' people who you don't intimately interact with, thus proving that you are not a bad person?
I thought they were interesting questions for me, anyway. So I wanted to share.
In this recent entry of mine,
sardonic_girl commented with a bunch of questions I thought were interesting to ponder, so I asked for her permission to repost them.For example, how many of our melanin-challenged friends here will see a black comedy but not a black drama? How many of us know much about black culture outside of the shit pandered by the media? Like Dan said, he was surprised when he found out that Black people had different hair types. Most white people are. Yet we, as black people must not only understand our history to be seen as real, we must know your history in order to survive (this is called double-consciousness.) On a more personal note, how many of you are kinda surprised deep down when you hear an intelligent person of color? Do you think, oh s/he's so articulate (even though there's no reason we shouldn't be)? Do you write off our anger as just 'typical Black anger'? Do you realize that most Black people are in fact suburban (60% live in the suburbs and are middle class.) Basically, do you assume that you are being progressive just because you have a couple of nice thoughts about the 'other' people who you don't intimately interact with, thus proving that you are not a bad person?
I thought they were interesting questions for me, anyway. So I wanted to share.
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Date: 2003-07-26 12:49 pm (UTC)I'm sorry. Don't mind the ranting, because she is right.
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Date: 2003-07-26 01:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-26 01:08 pm (UTC)Hmm.
Date: 2003-07-26 01:24 pm (UTC)Reminds me of a movie starring John Travolta called "White Man's Burden" or something. It's really good, one of those role-reversal things. I liked it. It made me contemplate how I view people in general. It was good.
Re: Hmm.
Date: 2003-07-26 03:16 pm (UTC)*sooo loves John Travolta*
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*sooooo wants purple hair now*
;)
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Date: 2003-07-26 01:40 pm (UTC)but on the other hand...
what she says makes part of me even more afraid to say anything to black people at all
Oh, and I totally agree with
Oh, and... um... is that, like, a '48 Ford, or something?