What I meant was that, our lives are shaped by our experiences. I as a black, conservative, protestant, middle-class, military wife person may have a different life experience than a Hispanic, Catholic, upper class male has. But our aspirations may be the same. We want a good home life, good job, money, education etc. etc.
The Next Queen of Soul?
Rolling Stone Magazine ^ | October 19, 2001 | By Toure
Posted on 10/19/2001 10:11:03 AM PDT by umbra
And yet like most African-Amercians, her (Alicia Keys) relationship with America is complex.
The country that once enslaved her, that costitutionally considered her three fifths of a human, that just forty years ago barred her from white schools and drinking fountains and kept her from the voting boots, now demands patriotism.
That can be a hard shift. (My comment: Uh huh, especially since she's younger than thirty...)
"All day I see everyone rockin' flags in they hats and on the streets, and I'm torn," she says.
"I look at that flag and I'm not able to completely go there for some reason.
I see lies in that flag.
I can't suddenly be all patriotic.
But this is about human life beyond any country of flag.
That's why it makes me feel so strange.
Because I'm so torn and there's so many layers involved."