Posted on 06/16/2015 7:48:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The author shares a real black American experience to counter the made-up black experience that race pretender
Its really not that complicated, #RachelDolezal. Because, no, you didnt go there with the experience; no, youre not a black hairdresser; no, you didnt have to play black to be your black childrens mom; and no, this discussion about race and what it means to be blackwhile rich and important and long overduehasnt occurred at your expense. But other people will let you have it for those transgressions. Ill just share my personal experience because I think, just by laying it out, that youll see the problem.
Consider this an ode to my mother, who was oftenperhaps usuallyseen as white. She was descended from many generations of mixed-race people: African (of unknown origin), Cherokee, Choctaw, Irish, Portuguese, Scottish and Lord knows what else. Mommys eyes were forest green, with gold specks, and sparkled. Whether snatched up into a bun or braided and falling down her back, her hair looked straight, except on a humid day. In some communities she could have passed for white, although black folks knew the deal.
And truth be told, for several years I, Hilary, her eldest child, believed that she was, in fact, white. Her face hit the floor when she heard me tell one of my white girlfriends, Juliewho was shocked that a woman whom she saw as having white skin was my momthat she was white and Indian. It hadnt occurred to my mom, having lived her entire life under the one-drop rule, that she was anything but colored (which gave way to Negro and then black and African American), or that she would have to explain her racial identity to her very own biological child. She was just stunned, and I, her firstborn, felt very ashamed.
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Um, no, it isn't "rich", or "important", or "long overdue".
It is tedious, it is counterproductive, and it has been entirely beaten to death already.
Here's an idea: why don't we talk about personal responsibility, self-reliance, and the diminution of government in EVERYONE'S lives?
“Hillary Beard”...might want to consider a pseudonym.
personal responsibility, self-reliance, and the diminution of government in EVERYONE’S lives?
the problem is ....the utter dumbing down of everyone who’s sole education comes from gument schools...and TV!!
make believe rules the “minds” and “lives” of a vast number of Americans
I think she’s got one already: “Huma Abedin”
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