POST BLACKNESS?

ALOHA 2U, I WAS GOING TO BED EARLY
BUT MY BFF G MAN TUGGED MY COATTAIL WITH THIS ONE..

when i was in 5th or 6th grade i wanted to be an architect.
i was told "black people can't be architects."
now i went to school in Harlem until High School
and we were singled out for the College Track,
we were the best and brightest Harlem had
to offer and altho i did not fully understand this i knew
what "be a credit to your race" meant
(my Mother got bot JET & EBONY magazines
fulla the Black Bourgoise )
yet i was told that i couldn't be an architect...

my white bisexual friend Tomas, railed on FB today
about kids calling themselves NIGGAH THIS & MY NIGGAH
my biracial sons and some of their white amigos do this.
as usual i am of two minds about this.
yes, i agree with Tomas it is a deeply hurtful word
whether spoken or unspoken and yet..

just as the LBGT community reclaimed GAY & QUEER
and hijacked it from the bigots and the term GUYS
became gender neutral.

just as O BOMBER is our first coconut POTUS
things are not always what they seem,
with NIGGAHS & WIGGAHS and
Eminem and what have you..

to summarize
will America ever outgrow its racism?

my heart sez YES but my darkest mind sez....

"The soul of the journey is liberty,
perfect liberty, to think,feel,
do just as one pleases."-William  Hazlitt (1778-1830)




namaste
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